From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2f8d64421a04911d6bc9f7815342dbfd@SDF.ORG> References: <2f8d64421a04911d6bc9f7815342dbfd@SDF.ORG> Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 10:01:22 +0200 Message-ID: From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] rio on plan 9 from user space Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9545f318-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Yes, rio needs whole display in Xorg. Xorg is a huge complex beast, can't do the same things as on plan9 easily. It makes no sense to me that you want to run *both* xfce and rio anyway. Decide on the one that is more useful for you. what's your latency to the cpu server? if you're limited by high latency you might want to try 9front with 9front's drawterm, where certain latency sensitive draw operations are optimized a lot more than in plan9's version. On 5/29/16, jfmxl wrote: > On another tack ... I have installed plan 9 from user space on my debian > machine, and sam and acme seem to open and work ok. But when I type rio, > I get ... > > $ rio > rio: it looks like there's already a window manager running; rio not > started > > So, rio under plan 9 from user space (p9port?) wants the the whole > display? > > I cannot run xfce and have rio in a window? > > I am trying to communicate with a plan 9 cpu, but drawterm seems slow > and awkward. > > Are there any plan 9 installations open to people like myself to 'try > out'? > >