From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <80eb8609f9e675de6be3fd04434c5876@plan9.bell-labs.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] X11 for Plan 9 From: "Russ Cox" In-Reply-To: <09ee01c2feae$03e57850$eb4a800a@will5510> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 11:42:06 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8d9e4010-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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