Remote connect akonadiconsole <-> akonadiserver?

[Volker Krause]

On Wednesday 16 June 2010 13:06:56 Rolf Offermanns wrote:
> On 06/14/2010 10:41 AM, Volker Krause wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 June 2010 16:16:43 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> >> Hi Rolf,
> >>
> >> On Sunday, 2010-06-13, Rolf Offermanns wrote:
> >>> I get some errors about non-existing dbus services, but the connection
> >>> is established anyway. At least partially...
> >>>
> >>> I can use the "Browser" to check my N900 resources, but the "Agents"
> >>> tab still shows the stuff from my desktop, not the resources from the
> >>> N900.
> >>
> >> D-Bus usually doesn't support connections via anything else than local
> >> means such as Unix domain sockets, though tt might be possible to
> >> configure D-Bus to use TCP and not perform any authentication checking.
> >>
> >> However, if I understand your requirements correctly, wouldn't it be
> >> easier to just set DISPLAY for akonadiconsole to point to your desktop
> >> machine or use X tunneling of SSH?
> >
> > I tried that as well, so far without success, the UI always showed up on
> > the device.
>
> It works, but there are some caveats:
>
> - If you "ssh -X" as root and then "su - user" the DISPLAY variable will
> get lost (easy to fix) and the xauth setup will not work
> -> Set a password for "user" and "ssh -X user at n900" then it will work
> (thanks, Kevin!)
>
> However, akonadiconsole seems to take the resolution information from
> the N900 so it looks the same on the remote display (only 300% the size)
> as on the N900. No usability improvement.
>
> > Therefore I implemented the Akonadi remote debugging server (akonadi_rds)
> > some time ago. It tunnels the Akonadi protocol and D-Bus over TCP. All
> > you need is to start akonadi_rds on the target system and set the
> > corresponding environment variables for Akonadi and D-Bus connections to
> > the TCP address of that on the client system. At least in theory. It
> > works fine between the Maemo emulator and the host system but not with
> > the real device. I guess it's due to some endian issues with D-Bus, never
> > got around to debug that though so far :-(
>
> Is akonadi_rds available as N900 package?

it's part of the libakonadi-dev package I think

regards
Volker
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