Originally Posted by Graham Cobb

Some Hildon apps (I only tried gpe-calendar) will work if you run a sapwood server and a matchbox window manager. The following two commands seem to work:

Code:

/usr/lib/sapwood/sapwood-server --display :1 &
/usr/bin/matchbox-window-manager -display :1 -theme default -use_titlebar yes -use_desktop_mode plain -use_lowlight no -use_cursor yes -use_dialog_mode static &

You can then run gpe-calendar with:

Code:

DISPLAY=:1 gpe-calendar

However, it is not at all clear that Hildon apps are really what you want on an external VGA screen: there is no touchscreen, there is no way to get an application back once you have iconised it, there may be more real-estate available, etc.

It may be that we really want to create versions of some apps that use Maemo but do not use Hildon (but are compiled for armel, use the Maemo versions of libc, glib, etc.)!