06-08-2022, 10:58 AM
If everything's working and configured then you should just be able to run any X11 application and it will display on your Windows desktop rather than on the phone. Wayland applications will still display on the phone. For applications that can run on either there may be an option you can set to force it to use X11 but you'll probably have to look it up. If you want the application to run in the background so you can still do other things in the command line then stick ' &' on the end of the line. If you forget then you can use ctrl-z to pause the application, then 'bg' to resume it in the background. So for example to start libreoffice writer in the background it should look something like:
mobian@mobian:~$ libreoffice --writer &
[1] 2154
mobian@mobian:~$
The '[1] 2154' is telling you that the process id for the program that just started is 2154. After a few seconds the libreoffice splash screen appeared on my desktop, followed by the writer application window in phone aspect ratio (as that's where it was last started - it seems to remember the window size from the last time it ran). You can just resize the window as normal.
I'm assuming it should work the same on Windows as on linux, but I can't try it. There's a chance that the libreoffice detection thing will kick in like it did at one point with phosh, and that it's just ok for me because I'm using a common desktop environment that it recognises.
mobian@mobian:~$ libreoffice --writer &
[1] 2154
mobian@mobian:~$
The '[1] 2154' is telling you that the process id for the program that just started is 2154. After a few seconds the libreoffice splash screen appeared on my desktop, followed by the writer application window in phone aspect ratio (as that's where it was last started - it seems to remember the window size from the last time it ran). You can just resize the window as normal.
I'm assuming it should work the same on Windows as on linux, but I can't try it. There's a chance that the libreoffice detection thing will kick in like it did at one point with phosh, and that it's just ok for me because I'm using a common desktop environment that it recognises.