Re: [lcd4linux] A few Questions about Lcd4Linux

[Michael R. <re...@eu...>]

Hi,

> Now before i found out about lcd4linux i used lcdproc, which doesnt have 
> the above abilities, but worked on a client/server model.
> 
> Now does lcd4linux support this? from what i read on your website it 
> seems lcd4linux is rather static, you configure it the way you want, 
> then you run it as a daemon. Is this correct or is there something 
> similar to lcdproc in the idea that i can write a client and interface 
> it to lcd4linux? if so where can i find documentation for doing this?

Well, *not* having a client/server model is probably the most important 
difference between lcd4linux and lcdproc. If lcd4linux had been designed 
with a client/server structure, I wouldn't have written it, but used 
lcdproc from the beginning :-)

But this does not mean that you cannot write your own "client" (I try to 
avoid the word "client" because people tend to confuse the client and 
the server side, I call them "plugins"), which is basically a "data 
collector", or one or more "functions" added to the "evaluator".

I think the new evaluator is a very cool feature of lcd4linux. As you 
need the evaluator mostly with data collection, preparation and 
presentation, in a client/server modell you'd want to have the evaluator 
on the client. But this would collide with a clean client/server design.

Maybe you want to tell us what you want to achieve, and I'm trying to 
give you hints how you could solve your issues with lcd4linux.


bye, Michael

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