From: Ori Bernstein <ori@eigenstate.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] rio : not completely rio-like : advice from packard!
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 22:07:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181002220711.ca776f5d47a9e4359fcc278a@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181003025504.in6hj76aowwcrmaw@v520.kathe.in>
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 08:25:04 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i just read that the rio in plan9port doesn't behave completely like the
> rio in plan 9 because of problems inherent in x11/xorg.
>
> could someone who understands x11/xorg well enough to have worked on
> developing or enhancing rio under plan9ports please communicate with
> keith packard? he's the god of x, and should be able to advise on a
> solution either directly or as a work-around.
The issue is that there is no (well defined) way to hand off a window between
different X programs, so they must open a new . The fix would involve patching
every X program.
Good luck.
--
Ori Bernstein
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-03 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-03 2:55 Mayuresh Kathe
2018-10-03 5:07 ` Ori Bernstein [this message]
2018-10-03 8:01 ` hiro
2018-10-03 14:37 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2018-10-03 21:24 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
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