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From: Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:51:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EBA3081A-6BF3-49EE-9B67-010AE784A818@9srv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSxfmLapUO-D-Rt34LffGsr5nFyZEmFxPMWpxtdKgcGMt2imA@mail.gmail.com>

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I mean, c’mon, now it practically *needs* drawterm...

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-OctqFhNnB/?igshid=rmqsml1hwqck

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 10:53, Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 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:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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?
>> 
>> 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). 
>> 
>> 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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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-27  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-25  6:19 Anthony Sorace
2020-03-25 11:19 ` [9fans] " Kim Lassila
2020-03-25 12:41   ` Jeremy O'Brien
2020-03-25 16:32     ` Kim Lassila
2020-03-25 17:40       ` ori
2020-03-25 17:25   ` Anthony Sorace
2020-03-25 17:49     ` Ethan Gardener
2020-03-27 12:25     ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2020-03-25 17:51   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2020-03-27  5:51     ` Anthony Sorace [this message]
2020-03-27 12:21       ` Ethan Gardener
2020-03-31  8:52 ` yy
2020-03-31 10:58   ` Ethan Gardener

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