Compaq iPAQ H3600 Screenshots

June 28, 2000

This is from the ramdisk we used for demoing at Usenix the week of June 21. Note that the natural rotation of the frame buffer results in a landscape orientation for the screen. Keith Packard is working on enabling X to rotate its screen into arbitrary orientations; we can see good reasons for being able to use any orientation possible (left handed, right handed, conventional use a'la exisiting PDA's, and upside down when using it with an IR keyboard).

The screen itself on the iPAQ is truly superb (reflective screen). The screen actually looks like the screen shots below! Colors are beautifully saturated, and you can look at the screen in full sunlight.

• Running xeyes, oclock, xlogo, and xscribble:

  

• Running top in xterm. Don't panic on memory usage: Linux uses almost all available memory in the buffer cache, and will reclaim memory from the cache, which has 6 megabytes available even running everything. Right now there is 16 megabytes of wasted space due to running out of the ramdisk, which we will get back as soon as we cut over to cramfs in the next few weeks.

  

• Running xterm and xscribble, having done an ls on the X11 directory.

  

• Running xeyes, xscribble, oclock, and twm.

  

• Running xscribble and xterm with top positioned so you can see the sizes of some applications. Note that xterm is a pig: X itself can be smaller yet if we disable backing store and saveunders, which we probably should on a device like this.