Thread: Advanced Question: Is it possible to run apps from Harmattan on desktop?
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2013-05-31 , 12:03
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Originally Posted by cddiede View Post
I never had any problem running desktop Linux apps on my N900 using X display back. However, it never worked the other way around. Just like you said, the X11 forwarding doesn't do the trick when trying to run the Maemo applications on a desktop client.
Most probably you are not actually passing the DISPLAY var to the proper program, because running Fremantle's Gtk+ apps is actually quite easy.

Remember that on Maemo most binaries are just wrappers around maemo-launcher. Thus they inherit the environment from the maemo-launcher instance, and not the one from the current shell. Using maemo-invoker might help there.

You also need to run the theme daemon (which iirc is not mandatory on Harmattan, but it is on Fremantle).
 

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