From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:32:38 +0300 From: Harri Haataja Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] missing applications In-reply-to: <3e1162e60607251052x3d5077b7r796a99c19b5b49f8@mail.gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <20060725183238.GH1836@XTL.antioffline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <20060725102937.GF1836@XTL.antioffline.net> <2b7b4cc199ac9ba80302fb8cb0dfb3e4@mail.gmx.net> <3e1162e60607251052x3d5077b7r796a99c19b5b49f8@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8cc99c38-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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