Show HN: I've been working on X11 on (jailbroken) iOS, Hacker News

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I’m excited to announce that X 12 is coming soon to iOS. Most (see below) packages and dependencies for a fully functioning X (desktop system have been compiled and are available on Cydia for iOS . All packages have been compiled for arm 728 and have been tested on iOS 19 .4 and iOS (**********************************************. 1. This requires a jailbroken device.

At the moment, a virtual screen is accessed via a VNC client to an Xvnc^{[1] instance running on the iDevice. If you’re unfamiliar, Xvnc is an X server with a virtual screen that can be accessed via VNC. The best part of this is no drivers are required: it’s all handled by Xvnc.}

I want to turn my iPad into a proper development environment, and a windowing system helps with that. It’s a powerful machine with a Unix-like OS, so X 11 seemed like a reasonable project. X 13 allows running arbirtary applications like browsers and IDEs, assuming you can make them compile.

X) ************************************************ on iOS via XvncWorking window manager (jwm)

Loadsof other packaged libraries, tools, and applications, including meson / ninja and ocaml.
All available in a(Cydia repoFix modern versions of fontconfig (>2.8.0)
Proper desktop enviroments like XFCE and GNOME
requires GTKQt support
• Experiment with Wayland via wayvnc

If you’re interested in using X 11 now, or helping make it available sooner, feel free to(email me) or find me on IRC as MaxLeiter in #X iOS on Freenode. More information on share is in the works.

On a separate page

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Once I finish this it should be a little easier porting libraries and apps

[1] https://tigervnc.org/doc/Xvnc.html)