[9fans] Rio in a window

[9fans] Rio in a window

[Paul Lalonde]

I run plan9 ports on my Mac, using Apple's X11 (XFree 4.4.0   
derived), but want to run rio as my window manager. That's easy  
enough, but usually I want to run with my mac desktop showing too,  
which means running X rootless, which leaves me without the desktop  
background to pull menus up with, especially a "hide" to push my full- 
screen acme back so I can see my other windows.  I can use the X11  
pulldowns to switch to full-screen, but I'm certain there is a more  
elegant solution.
In particular, I'd love to be able to run rio within a window and  
have that window behave like an X11 screen?  Or a non-(X11)-window  
manager version of rio?  Is there some application that will let me  
do this?
Thanks,
     Paul

Re: [9fans] Rio in a window

[Russ Cox]

> I run plan9 ports on my Mac, using Apple's X11 (XFree 4.4.0
> derived), but want to run rio as my window manager. That's easy
> enough, but usually I want to run with my mac desktop showing too,
> which means running X rootless, which leaves me without the desktop
> background to pull menus up with, especially a "hide" to push my full-
> screen acme back so I can see my other windows.  I can use the X11
> pulldowns to switch to full-screen, but I'm certain there is a more
> elegant solution.

I'm not really sure there is an elegant solution, but if you leave
a 9term window showing and you right click on that window,
the button event should make it to rio.

Russ

Re: [9fans] Rio in a window

[Jack Johnson]

On 8/22/05, Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I run plan9 ports on my Mac, using Apple's X11 (XFree 4.4.0
> > derived), but want to run rio as my window manager. That's easy
> > enough, but usually I want to run with my mac desktop showing too,
> > which means running X rootless, which leaves me without the desktop

How about rio as the window manager using Xnest?  That way you can
have a full rio desktop floating in with your OSX apps.

-Jack

Re: [9fans] Rio in a window

[Jack Johnson]

On 8/29/05, Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com> wrote:
> How about rio as the window manager using Xnest?

Something like this:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040131222238684

Re: [9fans] Rio in a window

[Paul Lalonde]

Now that does the trick!
Thanks,
     Paul
On 29-Aug-05, at 7:28 PM, Jack Johnson wrote:

> On 8/29/05, Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How about rio as the window manager using Xnest?
>>
>
> Something like this:
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040131222238684
>