Re: [9fans] X on Plan 9

[Andrey A Mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>]

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damit :)

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Andrey A Mirtchovski wrote:

> hi, 
> 
> i'm not posting this to the list, since i'm not sure how many people need to
> know about this, but something called x.tar.gz (or a variation thereof) was
> located on the plan9.bell-labs.com ftp site at least in january this year..
> i think it was the infamous X port.. 
> 
> i don't remember the exact location, though... i remember downloading and
> unzipping it, but that was all..
> 
> hope this helps in any way :)
> 
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 anothy@cosym.net wrote:
> 
> > the APE paper (i think) mentions that APE has been used to
> > build X11 on Plan 9, but that it's not included in the
> > distribution because it's too much work to maintain. i
> > imagine the presence of the very good vnc client also helps
> > negate the need for X for most people.
> > 
> > however, shame me as it does to admit it, i'd still find a
> > local X server very useful. there are about a half-dozen X
> > programs i find useful, and i'm not up to porting them all
> > the Plan 9's /dev/draw.
> > 
> > so... understanding that it's totally unsupported... can
> > whoever did the work in the Labs either share whatever
> > changes were made? i assume that, at least, X had to be told
> > how to talk to /dev/draw. i suspect various things also
> > needed to be done to convince it to 'configure' properly.
> > 
> > if nobody has any info, i'm going to give it a shot myself,
> > but X is an intimidating (read: freakin' huge!) body of
> > crap^Wcode, and i'd rather not duplicate work someone else's
> > already done.
> > -α.
> > 
> 
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