Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

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

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rummaging around /mnt/term when using drawterm might be enlightening.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 4:20 AM Kim Lassila <kim.lassila@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> wrote:
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> With iOS getting first-class mouse pointer support, I’m looking at the iOS
> drawterm port again. Has anyone touched this since the old GSoC project bit
> rotted out?
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> Drawterm is quite slow at reading and writing pixels on the screen. I
> learned this when I started recording screen in Plan 9 (
> https://github.com/9d0/screencast).
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> Instead of porting drawterm to different platforms I would like to see
> vncs improved to support the latest version of the Remote Framebuffer
> Protocol (RFC 6143). This would allow a standard VNC client to connect to a
> Plan 9 terminal, support screen resizing, local mouse cursor, and deliver
> all key strokes and mouse chords accurately. VNC is optimized to work over
> a large variety of different networks including high latency links and it
> will therefore offer a better user experience than drawterm, especially
> over wireless.
>
> Kim
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