From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 22:07:11 -0700 From: Ori Bernstein To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-Id: <20181002220711.ca776f5d47a9e4359fcc278a@eigenstate.org> In-Reply-To: <20181003025504.in6hj76aowwcrmaw@v520.kathe.in> References: <20181003025504.in6hj76aowwcrmaw@v520.kathe.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] rio : not completely rio-like : advice from packard! Topicbox-Message-UUID: e67beba2-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 08:25:04 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe 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