Re: [9fans] no job control; thank you!

["matt" <matt@proweb.co.uk>]

> there's no essential reason why you couldn't do that under plan 9,
> i think. just put a level of indirection above the draw device.

I have been mulling something over and this seems the appropriate time to
mention it.

I notice that plan9 now has the vncserver: vncs

One useful attribute of vnc on unix is that it can act as a XFree display.
You don't need a VGA card configured to run X at all. You run vncserver and
connect with a vncviewer and a new XFree session is waiting, log off and
it's still running. log back in later and it's how you left it.

I was thinking that this would make a very useful addition to plan9. By
opting for vnc-vga one can avoid vga hell to get an auth/cpu server up and
running. One of the set-up problems is that you might need two computers so
that you can edit plan9.ini or edit/compile the $vga_driver.c

I was thinking that a pseudo VGA driver would pretend that there was VGA
hardware running and running vncs would expose it.

Downside is the lack of authentication possible if one continued to use the
system in such a state but at least you would / could be using it.

M