Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm

Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm

[Keith Nash]

> Does anyone have their own hacks to 9wm?  Or know of any?  I'm sort of
> toying with the idea of merging versions and doing a new release.
>
> I have David's pre-1.2-9wm dated August of 1996.  Most other things I've
> seen have been based on 1.1.  I also have w9wm 0.4.0.

w9wm is now up to 0.4.1: http://www.grassouille.org/w9wm/index.en.shtml

There is also larswm, which describes itself as "a hack for 9wm, adding automatic window tiling, virtual desktops and many other features designed to make it a very efficient user environment" - see
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~larsb/larswm/

Keith.

Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm

[andrey mirtchovski]

the 'virtual desktop' business is the one that I'm most interested in
having, though I haven't used any virtual desktops for the past year and a
half (both in rio and in the 9wm that I use)... it's a pain on smaller
screens...

someday I'll hack 4 virtual desktops into Rio just to piss people enough so
that they do it better on their own. no need for buttons and nice 'virtual
console managers' -- take the fvwm approach and switch consoles by
'pressing' the mouse against the end of the screen in the direction of the
console you want ;)

there'll be flashy text indicating which console you've just switched to.
the letters would fade slowly and elegantly.

in fact, there _should_ be a virtual console manager present... maybe even
two -- one at the top, one at the bottom, showing a minimized view of the
screen (see the screenshot at:

	http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/screenshots/scr-plan9.png

we're half way there!)

andrey

Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm

[plan9]

For virtual desktops, you could just run rios in windows.
That's about as virtual as you can get, I'd have thought.
(Although, make sure you leave a bit of the original backround
visible, so's you can switch between desktops.)

Robby

Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm

[Scott Schwartz]

| 	Does that also explain why, when going thru the comp.os.plan9
| 	newsgroup, it takes forever and a day for the post to show up?

The usenet->list gateway at bath.ac.uk is moderated.  I assume that's
the source of the delay.

Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm

[andrey mirtchovski]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Anthony Mandic wrote:

> 	Does that also explain why, when going thru the comp.os.plan9
> 	newsgroup, it takes forever and a day for the post to show up?

comp.os.plan9 is also moderated, that takes time. 9fans is always the better
choice, now that the spam has trickled down significantly.

Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm

[Anthony Mandic]

"boyd, rounin" wrote:
> 
> > Does that also explain why, when going thru the comp.os.plan9
> > newsgroup, it takes forever and a day for the post to show up?
> 
> i'm not sure.  i think it's always been a bit weird.  load related?

	I don't think its load but it seems to be working better now.

-am	© 2003

Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm

[boyd, rounin]

> Does that also explain why, when going thru the comp.os.plan9
> newsgroup, it takes forever and a day for the post to show up?

i'm not sure.  i think it's always been a bit weird.  load related?

Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm

[Anthony Mandic]

Scott Schwartz wrote:
> 
> | In a side note, it seems that notes I post from the news system
> | aren't making it back onto the list.  At least, I don't see them.
> 
> Is that just recently?  We've been tinkering with spam filters,
> and you might be getting caught by spamassassin.

	Does that also explain why, when going thru the comp.os.plan9
	newsgroup, it takes forever and a day for the post to show up?

-am	© 2003

Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm

[boyd, rounin]

in the X11 version of sam the right place to put the pipe was in samterm,
'cos it fit well with the event library.  sam (as many of us know) has a legacy
of running a lightweight client in the terminal and the editor ran on the host.

but things changed.

you have to B near where the pipe is, but the interpretation of the pathname
is done by sam, not samterm.

i should know, i submitted the code, which was taken from an X11 cut-buffer
exchange idea, but rob liked the concept.

pride?


http://www.ultimate-lyrics.de/texte/bandalbums/albums_l/livingcolour_timessup.htm#Pride

Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm

[Steve Kilbane]

Many years ago, I did add a pipe to 9wm, in a similar vein to
sam's, and some simple commands that could be used to control
it. I put together a virtual window manager with it and some
scripts. It was horrible, and thankfully is long gone. :-)

steve

Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm

[Scott Schwartz]

| In a side note, it seems that notes I post from the news system
| aren't making it back onto the list.  At least, I don't see them.

Is that just recently?  We've been tinkering with spam filters,
and you might be getting caught by spamassassin.

Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm

[andrey mirtchovski]

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/ports/9wm-1.2.tar.gz

that's the one I use (sorry for posting the link again -- not sure if you
have seen this already...)

andrey

[9fans] other versions of 9wm

[Aharon Robbins]

Does anyone have their own hacks to 9wm?  Or know of any?  I'm sort of
toying with the idea of merging versions and doing a new release.

I have David's pre-1.2-9wm dated August of 1996.  Most other things I've
seen have been based on 1.1.  I also have w9wm 0.4.0.

In a side note, it seems that notes I post from the news system
aren't making it back onto the list.  At least, I don't see them.

Thanks,

Arnold Robbins