From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: bob Message-ID: <3ae4890d@news.> References: <20010418225620.CE096199C0@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] X on Plan 9 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:00:55 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8dcaed10-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Is it possible to put inferno's GUI into Plan9 intead of using X. I would love to see windows created limbo it is so cool. Plan9 +limbo = superb. just like sun solaris with java and stuffs like that.. wrote in message news:20010418225620.CE096199C0@mail.cse.psu.edu... > the APE paper (i think) mentions that APE has been used to > build X11 on Plan 9, but that it's not included in the > distribution because it's too much work to maintain. i > imagine the presence of the very good vnc client also helps > negate the need for X for most people. > > however, shame me as it does to admit it, i'd still find a > local X server very useful. there are about a half-dozen X > programs i find useful, and i'm not up to porting them all > the Plan 9's /dev/draw. > > so... understanding that it's totally unsupported... can > whoever did the work in the Labs either share whatever > changes were made? i assume that, at least, X had to be told > how to talk to /dev/draw. i suspect various things also > needed to be done to convince it to 'configure' properly. > > if nobody has any info, i'm going to give it a shot myself, > but X is an intimidating (read: freakin' huge!) body of > crap^Wcode, and i'd rather not duplicate work someone else's > already done. > -.