[9fans] Why does rio deliver resize events through the mouse file?

[9fans] Why does rio deliver resize events through the mouse file?

[ewpert via 9fans]

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Why resize events in rio are delivered through the mouse file? This feels a bit unintuitive. I wasn’t planning to open or read from the mouse device in my program at all, but it seems I have to, because that's the only way to receive resize notifications.

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Re: [9fans] Why does rio deliver resize events through the mouse file?

[ron minnich]

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What would you do differently?

The code is there, change at will, and see if it works better for you

On Sat, Dec 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM ewpert via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote:

> Why resize events in rio are delivered through the mouse file? This feels
> a bit unintuitive. I wasn’t planning to open or read from the mouse device
> in my program at all, but it seems I have to, because that's the only way
> to receive resize notifications.
>
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Re: [9fans] Why does rio deliver resize events through the mouse file?

[Rodrigo G. López]

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it's not rio(4) but mouse(3) itself that generates these events. it also
controls other screen-related functionality like blanking.

this used to be handled by an actual terminal (the jerq/blot aka DMD-5620)
and the interfaces probably evolved from that.


cheers!

-rodri

On Sat, Dec 6, 2025, 16:39 ewpert via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote:

> Why resize events in rio are delivered through the mouse file? This feels
> a bit unintuitive. I wasn’t planning to open or read from the mouse device
> in my program at all, but it seems I have to, because that's the only way
> to receive resize notifications.
>
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[9fans] Re: Why does rio deliver resize events through the mouse file?

[Alyssa M via 9fans]

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You could read /dev/wctl, which returns this and other window status.
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