Termux X11 Packages

There are located build scripts and patches for Termux X11 packages.

Programs that use X11 Windowing System cannot be used standalone like normal command line utilities. Termux does not provide native way for video output and therefore you will need to do additional setup. Recommended way is to use either tigervnc as [VNC] server and VNC Viewer for accessing video output. You can also use XServer XSDL, though it is a bit outdated - do not complain about something that works via VNC but is not working via XServer XSDL. Other variants of the X server implementations for Android may work but they are completely unsupported. Video output to the remote X server (directly or via SSH X forwarding) should work without additional setup required.

Current X11 setup is quite limited in functionality. There no hardware acceleration. OpenGL support is very basic so GLX extension is not available. Also, do not expect support for the wide range of GUI programs. Large desktop environments like KDE and GNOME are out of scope.

Do not forget to set a DISPLAY environment variable when launching X11-enabled programs from the Termux console. In most cases, you will need to do export DISPLAY=:1 when using VNC and export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0 when using XServer XSDL.

More complete information about setting up graphical environment is on the Termux Wiki.

How to enable this repository

To enable this package repository run:

pkg install x11-repo

Building packages

You can build all packages manually by using provided docker image. The only requirements are Linux-based host with Docker installed.

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/termux/x11-packages

2. Enter build environment (will download docker image if necessary):

   cd ./x11-packages
   ./start-builder.sh

   Command shown above will start builder for Android 7 (API level 24). If you need to build package for Android 5, use ./start-builder-legacy.sh.

3. Choose package you want to build and run:

   ./build-package.sh -a ${arch} ${package name}

   Replace ${arch} with target CPU architecture and ${package name} with package name you want to build.

Contributing

If you wish to contribute, please take a look on our contributing guide.