From: Harri Haataja <harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] missing applications
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:32:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060725183238.GH1836@XTL.antioffline.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60607251052x3d5077b7r796a99c19b5b49f8@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:52:27AM -0700, David Leimbach wrote:
> >A full-screen button is the only thing that I miss sometimes.
> >Pressing a key and acme is fullscreen ;)
>
> One could presumably write such a thing using the rio filesystem
> already... in fact when I start plan 9 I get a stripe with "winwatch
> -e winwatch" in it and 3 sub-rio sessions that fill in the rest of the
> screen, but some of the offsets are currently hard-coded and thusly
> not dynamic at all to other changes.
>
> It's nearly virtual desktop space. (and winwatch only watches the rio
> sessions, not the windows within them, good old private namespaces win
> again for me here.)
>
> Within a rio session I find I often want to expand a window to fill
> the whole thing in as well.
>
> Rio provides a good bit of mechanism, just not a ton of policy...
> that's up to people to customize for themselves. I once thought I had
> a way to improve rio, I was wrong and Russ pointed out a way to do the
> things I wanted to do with the filesystem.
(Re: tiling wm that the comment was to)
I heard this the last time I mentioned the issue, and I believe it may
be the key but it seems like a lot of things just have to be hardcoded
and juggled about with tools. Making it more of a tiling emulation on
top of a single-space floating window system instead of a system where
any and all windows are managed by a single entity (window manager or
replacing system) no matter what they are, where they came from
(size/pos arguments) and what they try to do.
--
The problem with explosives is that if you screw up, you're not just
history, but biology, geography and modern art as well.
-- From the .sig of Chris Hacking
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2006-07-24 16:38 ` [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 27, Issue 52 Andrew Hudson
2006-07-24 19:28 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-24 19:49 ` csant
2006-07-24 19:53 ` John Floren
2006-07-24 20:19 ` [9fans] missing applications Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-07-24 20:22 ` John Floren
2006-07-25 10:29 ` Harri Haataja
2006-07-25 15:06 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-25 19:53 ` Robert Raschke
2006-07-25 21:25 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-25 17:52 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-25 18:32 ` Harri Haataja [this message]
2006-07-25 18:26 ` Harri Haataja
2006-07-25 18:33 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-07-25 18:47 ` Harri Haataja
2006-07-24 22:41 ` [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 27, Issue 52 Micah Stetson
2006-07-24 23:17 ` Jack Johnson
2006-07-24 20:02 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-24 20:02 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-24 20:08 ` csant
2006-07-24 20:23 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-24 20:31 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-24 20:43 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-24 20:21 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-24 20:26 ` John Floren
2006-07-25 0:17 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-24 20:36 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-07-24 20:51 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-24 20:42 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-24 21:15 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-07-24 23:28 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-25 13:38 ` rog
2006-07-25 14:58 ` Darren Bane
2006-07-24 23:59 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-24 20:26 ` Richard Miller
2006-07-24 23:48 ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-25 2:50 ` Dan Cross
2006-07-25 3:01 ` John Floren
2006-07-25 3:58 ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-07-25 5:35 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-25 6:06 ` Bakul Shah
2006-07-25 10:34 ` John Pritchard
2006-07-25 20:17 ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-25 21:23 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-07-25 21:27 ` Paul Hebble
2006-07-25 21:41 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-07-25 22:28 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-25 22:38 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-07-25 23:32 ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-25 22:59 ` csant
2006-07-25 23:28 ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-26 17:40 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-26 17:55 ` Lou Kamenov
2006-07-26 17:57 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-26 17:58 ` Lou Kamenov
2006-07-26 18:13 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-07-26 18:15 ` Lou Kamenov
2006-07-26 20:40 ` [9fans] small devices Charles Forsyth
2006-07-26 21:03 ` lucio
2006-07-26 21:18 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-07-26 21:35 ` csant
2006-07-26 21:37 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-27 0:41 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-07-25 18:20 ` [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 27, Issue 52 Skip Tavakkolian
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