From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrey A Mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] X on Plan 9 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:15:53 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 853befaa-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 damit :) On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Andrey A Mirtchovski wrote: > hi,=20 >=20 > 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) w= as > located on the plan9.bell-labs.com ftp site at least in january this year= =2E. > i think it was the infamous X port..=20 >=20 > i don't remember the exact location, though... i remember downloading and > unzipping it, but that was all.. >=20 > hope this helps in any way :) >=20 > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 anothy@cosym.net wrote: >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. > > -=CE=B1. > >=20 >=20 >=20