Xcpad
An X11 server displaying on a Synaptics cPad
The key idea is simple: either I could program tools for displaying
information on a cPad using some specific API or I could simply
implement an X11 server for the cPad. It turns out that it is not
only simpler to implement the X11 server for the cPad but even much
more useful: there are already tools for X11 which display the
information I would put onto my cPad (eg. the current load, a chart
displaying the battery state, a clock, etc.).
Currently, I have an X11 server called Xcpad working which displays
on the cPad. You can get instructions on how to build it yourself
from here. There is no support for any form
of input, neither mouse nor keyboard, yet. This is the next thing I
will be working on.
Screenshots
I would like to provide a few screenshots but I haven't succeeded
in making useful photos of the cPad before my camera ran out of power.
I hope to provide some soon, however.
Download
You can get the sources from
here.
The source consist of a patch against the XFree86 4.3.0 source tree.
See the ReadMe for more detailed instructions
on building and installing Xcpad.
Author
Dietmar Kuehl,
(dietmar_kuehl@yahoo.com),
Phaidros Software AG