Re: [9fans] X11 for Plan 9

["Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>]

> o why is twm for X11 on Plan 9 2 Megs where its 180K on Sun?

because it is statically linked on plan 9 and not on sun.

>     In general the binaries seem to be a lot bigger. This goes against the
>     Plan 9 norm of much smaller binaries.

plan 9 binaries are smaller because the programs are
simpler.  but there's no magic: if you compile an enormous
program you get an enormous binary.  look at /386/bin/gs.

> o xterm will not run for me - it says it has run out of ptys

you need to copy /n/sources/extra/ptyfs.c to /sys/src/ape/9src
and then build it.  the "then build it" is not trivial, since it's
an old 9P1 server and needs to be converted.  steve simon
was asking about this a few days ago, so you might want to
check with him to avoid duplicating effort.

> o I cannot connect to the X display from another non Plan 9 box
>    running X - this has put a serious dampener on my playing of xtank and
>    xrisk!

xhost +

russ