HelloWorld example in Hildon Desktop

After a long installation of ScratchBox and Hildon SDK, everyone would like to see how Hildon Desktop looks like. The first thing we should do is to start a virtual X server with a display number different than the host, here we use :2.

[yenlaingl@yenliangl-laptop:~] Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96 -ac -extension Composite

The second thing to do is to redirect the DISPLAY of all X clients in sbox to the :2

export DISPLAY=:2

The third thing we should do is to start up the Hildon Application Framework.

[sbox-DIABLO_ARMEL: ~/workspace]: af-sb-init.sh start

You should see the Hildon Desktop shown inside the window of the Xephyr, such as,



And now, time to invoke the HelloWorld example.

[sbox-DIABLO_ARMEL: ~/workspace]: run-standalone.sh ./hello

Cool! In fact, I've had a dilemma choosing OpenMoko or Nokia Internet Tablet to be my off-work hobby. I did try to install OpenMoko SDK, but honestly, it's not quite intuitive and hard to make it work. Inversely, Diablo is very easy to install and get started.