From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] rio with virtuals
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:00:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aaafc130906151600q4b1385bao8ee541f8f127af4c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bb5eb6954cf188a69c95db80aff77b2@csplan9.rit.edu>
p9p rio has virtuals, too. I would tell you to look at the source for
more inspiration, but I don't really want to be a comedian.
How does one switch desktops? Can/did you implement scrolling on a
gray bit to switch? Extending the fs?
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:54 PM, <john@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote:
> I spent a couple hours this afternoon reading rio source and hacking
> it to do virtual desktops. /n/sources/contrib/john/rio-virtual.tgz
> contains the files from /sys/src/cmd/rio with my changes made. At
> this time, there is no support for specifying the number of virtuals,
> because I'm lazy--you get six and you will ENJOY IT.
>
> Let me know if you try it and find bugs. I don't really give a damn
> if you think this is Against The Plan 9 Way. Personally, the exercise
> gave me a better appreciation for the simplicity of Plan 9 software--I
> was able to take a piece of software I'd never looked at before, read
> the code a bit, and put in some new functionality within an hour or
> two.
>
>
> John
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-15 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-15 22:54 john
2009-06-15 23:00 ` J.R. Mauro [this message]
2009-06-15 23:13 ` john
2009-08-12 20:20 ` John Floren
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