2008-08-02-gnu hurd and x

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:47:50 +0200

Getting X to work on the GNU/Hurd

This is a try to get X to work in my qemu GNU/Hurd.

This is a first try, my next one will be with the ?guide from this wiki.

Firstoff: I used the following guides:

X Under the Hurd from debian-hurd

GNU/Hurd FAQ

What I did

I worked as root.

First I installed xorg, x-window-system-code, rxvt and twm:

apt install xserver-xorg x-window-system-core rxvt twm

Then I set the LDLIBRARYPATH and DISPLAY

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

After that I set the mouse and keyboard translator.

settrans /dev/kbd /hurd/kbd /dev/kbd
settrans -c /dev/mouse /hurd/mouse --protocol=ps/2

Then I started x

startx

It didn't work yet - but watch the blog for updates - I'll post once I get it working.