Re: HTML to PDF Generator (X-Server on i)

Note that Scott didn't get X-Server running on i, IBM did.

Scott made use of the 5799-PTL iSeries Developer's tools PPRQ which
includes a X-Window server.

The links in Scott's article are broken, I was unable to find the
documentation pages, but at least I finally found the download link:
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/preconfig.jsp?id=2007-11-30+08%3A38%3A21.958154R&S_TACT=104CBW71&S_CMP=

<soapbox>
There are at least two people who need beatings at IBM...
---The one deciding on names for our favorite platform...
---The one constantly redoing IBM web site...
</soapbox>

HTH,
Charles

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Crispin Bates <cbates@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yeah, I knew what X was, honest guv...

So yes, Scott did get X server running on the i. If I remember correctly,
there was some other example that I thought was from Scott where he had an
entire desktop running. But it may have been from someone else...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 1:55 PM
Subject: RE: HTML to PDF Generator (X-Server on i)

Thanks, Crispin.  To clarify, X is the Bell Laboratories graphical user
interface on which Windoze was based.  (Using a very broad brush, it is
the
"Windows" of Unix.  It's also sometimes referred to as X-Windows.)  An X
Server provides a graphical login to terminals that might connect over the
cloud.

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Crispin Bates
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 1:39 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: HTML to PDF Generator (X-Server on i)

If I understand the question -
http://systeminetwork.com/article/what-qshell-and-pase-can-do-you
(section
Using PASE to Run Open-Source Unix Software)
Scott had a game of chess being delivered from his i...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:19 PM
Subject: RE: HTML to PDF Generator (X-Server on i)

I wonder how difficult it would be to get wkhtmltopdf
working on i in Pase?

Well, I stopped considering it when I read, under Features, "... the

X11

client must be installed."  I am not administrator on the systems

that I

use, so haven't had opportunity to work with this.  But I'm fairly

certain

X
client is lacking on the standard i installation.

Brings up an interesting question.  Has anyone on this list

successfully

installed and exercised an X server on their System i?

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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