From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] oneko for rio
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 11:02:32 +0100
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> on plan 9 this should be trivial (read 'hello world').

actually, i doubt if it would be so entirely trivial, as it's not that
easy to get the current position of the mouse cursor outside the
current window.  you could get around this by writing a little file
server (easiest using lib9p) that serves not only /dev/mouse, but
/dev/mouse2 as well; it would have to be run before rio (or run rio
inside a rio window)

then oneko would be able to get the current mouse position from
/dev/mouse2, despite the fact that rio had covered up /dev/mouse with
its own version. window position information is trivially found
in /dev/wsys/*/wctl

maybe i'm missing something.