Hi folks
I was wondering a few things about how the system works, cause I've read a bit about dual booting a raspberry pi, which is pretty neat. I've dual booted on x86 machines for years but for a pi to have it, is sweet.
What would be better however, is being able to switch views within the same OS without rebooting, specifically I would like to run an emulator (c64, vice to be specific), off the same hardware and the arch OS, and have the video output to the HDMI out, whether it be a touchscreen or a big 55" TV.
Looking at Rune's 'ps ax' I can see that it runs xwindows, and that its running a fullscreen local web browser. I was wondering if its possible to have a web button within run that would launch vice and bring it to the front of X, fullscreen, and then once its finished running, returns to the web interface?
I could easily dual boot RuneOS and one of the raspberry pi's emu distros, which in itself could be integrated nicely in rune, however I'm more curious about the backend capability - ie can the system run a fullscreen xwindows screen saver (weather for example) and then make that layer come to the front (or switch focus, whatever).
I know the focus of Rune is for the technical side, and the primary focus is headless interfacing, but given the recently implemented local interface, I think it could be extended quite a bit so that rune could become more of a stand alone appliance, as an extension to its core features.
Going OT, What it could also provide is a nice interactive layer for a graphic equalizer, for both output (seeing the sine wave) and input (being able to adjust the eq) but even better, it could display the sine wave output as a background within X and have the input controls on top as an overlay and being able to adjust it, fullscreen, in real time. Could be extended to take advantage of OpenGL hardware too, or some of the open source visualization software that's available on linux
-D
