From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:48:50 +0200 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] The correct way to do an incorrect thing Topicbox-Message-UUID: a1173bac-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 no, the plan 9 way is to apply for a grant first, that would support such endeavor On 9/29/16, Erik Quanstrom 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 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 > > >