Re: [9fans] nile, a rio derivative

[Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>]

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how does one delete windows that have another window manager running inside
(rio or nile)?


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:03 AM, <a@9srv.net> wrote:

> While poking around for something unrelated, I found a 9fans
> message[1] from Russ describing a hypothetical menuless (sic)
> rio. It sounded interesting so I've mostly implemented it in nile[2],
> a rio derivative I've been poking at. I think it does everything
> described in that message but the title bar. Invoke with -m to get
> the mode described in that message (it's half way there anyway).
>
> I've got a *lot* of muscle memory attached to rio's way of doing
> things, but so far this feels quite nice. There's a man page and a
> readme, in case the description in Russ's message doesn't make
> things clear.
>
> I use nile as a playground for other rio ideas and and integrating
> other people's mods, so there are some rough bits. Right now, it
> adds Andrey's transparent window creation mod (useful over poor
> networks) and yiyus's non-interactive mod (although I no longer
> use this and will likely remove it soon).
>
> I've also put up a version of winwatch[3] which adds a menu
> on button 3 similar to rio's. This is very useful with nile -m. The
> big missing function is that there's no mousy way to set the
> scroll state, nor any way to find the current state. I've started
> playing with some of the "global command window" ideas which
> have come up in such conversations, too.
>
> [1]     http://9fans.net/archive/2005/03/31
> [2]     /n/sources/contrib/anothy/src/cmd/nile
> [3]     /n/sources/contrib/anothy/src/cmd/winwatch.c
>
>
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