About XServer XSDL
X Window System / X11 server for Android, complete and fully functional, with PulseAudio server included. You may use it to stream applications from your Linux PC, or to launch Linux installed on your Android (installing...
X Window System / X11 server for Android, complete and fully functional, with PulseAudio server included.
You may use it to stream applications from your Linux PC, or to launch Linux installed on your Android (installing Linux is done via separate app).
3D acceleration and OpenGL are not supported. If you're launching X clients from PC, you can install VirtualGL to use OpenGL.
Touch screen with two fingers to send right mouse button click, with three fingers to send middle button click. You can also press button on your stylus, or use Bluetooth mouse.
Swipe with two fingers to scroll documents.
Finger hover is supported on select devices. If you have Galaxy S4/Note 3 device, enable AirView in system settings to use it.
To invoke keyboard, press Back key. Non-English text input is not supported in terminal, but it works in GUI applications.
If you don't see Back key, swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
If you have hardware Menu key, it will send Ctrl-Z (Undo in most apps).
You can disable gyroscope in
Mouse emulation →
Advanced →
Gyroscope .
You can enable portrait screen orientation and 24bpp color depth in
Change device config →
Video .
To set custom display number, go to
Change device config →
Command line parameters → change parameters to
XSDL :123 , press
OK , where 123 is your display number. XSDL will listen on TCP port 6123. You may also pass other parameters to X server using this dialog.
To connect to the display manager on your PC, add parameter
-query your.PC.IP.address to the Xserver command line, then configure your display manager.
If you have XDM, you will need to remove a line starting with
:0 from
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers , add
* to
/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess , and set
DisplayManager*authorize: false in
/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config , to disable local X server and allow connections from external IP addresses.
If you want SHM extension to work in Linux chroot - download file libandroid-shmem.so from here:
https://github.com/pelya/cuntubuntu/tree/master/dist
copy it to chroot, set executable flag, and execute this in chroot before other commands:
export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libandroid-shmem.so
.APK file for side-loading and old versions:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libsdl-android/files/apk/XServer-XSDL/
Sources:
https://github.com/pelya/commandergenius/tree/sdl_android/project/jni/application/xserver
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of XServer XSDL since it was posted on our website on 2016-10-13 16:13:36.
The latest version is and it was updated on 2024-04-19 18:02:10. See below the changes in each version.
XServer XSDL version
Updated At: 2021-03-12
Changes: Fixed mouse wheel
Option to disable PulseAudio server
XServer XSDL version
Updated At: 2020-07-22
Changes: Fixed notification color when dark mode is enabled on Android 10
Fixed touchscreen and mouse input lag
XServer XSDL version
Updated At: 2020-02-26
Changes: Better Bluetooth/USB mouse input
Fixed Bluetooth/USB keyboards with Italian key layout
Fixed 24bpp video depth
XServer XSDL version
Updated At: 2019-11-06
Changes: An update after 3.5 years of neglect!
- Support for Android 9. Android 10 not tested.
- PulseAudio server with background playback and low latency.
- Updated X server codebase to upstream version 1.20.3.
- DISPLAY and PULSE_SERVER variables copied to clipboard on app start.
- Removed broken Android multiwindow support.
XServer XSDL version
Updated At: 2016-05-19
Changes: Added theqvd support
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