From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The correct way to do an incorrect thing
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:48:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFSF3XNP3FpjJ526iiPAo8Lzc3JuM2udSK6MDNfcjiV=J-5b4A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a8763c93-f22c-4c63-9f2d-5696268294c0@email.android.com>
no, the plan 9 way is to apply for a grant first, that would support
such endeavor
On 9/29/16, Erik Quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> a plan 9 thing would be to use /usr/$user/lib/acmebg and call it a day.
>
>
> On Sep 28, 2016 4:07 PM, Marshall Conover <marzhall.o@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> As an awful person, I hacked rio's data.c to support backgrounds. Because
>> the default code took a 1-by-1 pixel grey image and tiled it, I just
>> shoved a line in there to load an image file instead using readimage().
>> (Hacked really is the appropriate word here.)
>>
>> My question is, would the plan9 approach to this (assuming this were a
>> plan 9 thing to do in the first place) be to add a command line argument
>> to rio that lets the user specify a file, or would it be to present some
>> file somewhere the user can write a background to? E.g., `cat
>> /usr/glenda/backgrounds/bg.bit > /rio/bg`.
>>
>> If there are any papers or man pages that'd be good to read for this
>> question, I'd appreciate a finger in that direction.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> mars
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-29 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-28 23:07 Marshall Conover
2016-09-28 23:58 ` Erik Quanstrom
2016-09-29 7:48 ` hiro [this message]
2016-09-29 7:54 ` Harri Haataja
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