From: pavlovetsky@gmail.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: X11 setup problem
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:42:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1182349772.241705.226990@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1182331540.420221.285260@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 20, 2:41 pm, ano...@gmail.com (Anthony Sorace) wrote:
> /n/kfs is the conventional mount point for the previous
> local-disk-backed file system on terminals and cpu servers; it's
> likely just an issue of point it at wherever your file system is
> *really* mounted, instead (or, just mount it on /n/kfs and skip the
> changes).
>
> however, and this is important, it is *very* *strongly* recommended
> that you learn to use the system without X11 first. X11 is not part of
> the distribution for a reason; that port is old and slow, and was
> never heavily used. no program in Plan 9 depends on, or even wants,
> X11 in any way. you will find it distracting and frustrating rather
> than helpful if you aren't familiar with "real" Plan 9 first, as
> you'll keep expecting things to be there which aren't.
I understand you perfectly. My idea was that with X installed it would
be easer to port other software that uses X server.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-20 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-20 8:38 [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2007-06-20 8:47 ` John Floren
2007-06-20 9:08 ` Steve Simon
2007-06-20 9:29 ` [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2007-06-20 11:40 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-06-20 13:54 ` Paweł Lasek
2007-06-21 8:51 ` pavlovetsky
2007-06-20 14:14 ` pavlovetsky
2007-06-20 14:42 ` pavlovetsky [this message]
2007-06-20 22:15 ` Steve Simon
2007-06-20 22:55 ` john
2007-06-21 7:29 ` Steve Simon
2007-06-22 8:57 ` pavlovetsky
2007-06-22 9:40 ` Steve Simon
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