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

There is a free - I think - or very inexpensive PRPQ or something called Programmer Tools or Tools for Develoeprs - it includes a STRVNCSVR (Start VNC Server) and lots of other goodies. Library is QAPTL. Look up 5799PTL iSeries Tools For Developers - http://tinyurl.com/2576vpu will bring you to a page where you can then go to an FAQ and all that. It used to be downloadable - might still me, according to this site.

Vern

On 8/5/2010 1:16 PM, Crispin Bates 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
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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
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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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