From: hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:08:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4d8fa40904170908m15f4f6bct8f2a1346ea43a2f4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4e37bd61df0e24c3d5228020201a8ea@quintile.net>
>> It lacks usual
>> buttons for minimizing (hiding), maximizing, controlling windows. You
>> can't even send a window to background and even if Inferno's wm has some
>> of these including title bars, but the meanings and, or behavior of the
>> same is quite different from other popular GUI systems.
>
> Here we agree
Huh? Rio works fine here, you can resize, move and hide windows; also
a click brings the window to the front.
I prefer tiling window managers, but rio comes just afterwards in my
list of preferences.
I agree, that inferno's attempt to imitate popular GUIs failed ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-17 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-14 6:05 Jim Habegger
2009-04-14 11:09 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2009-04-14 12:36 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-04-14 12:38 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-04-14 12:46 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-04-14 12:37 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-04-14 13:17 ` Andrés Domínguez
2009-04-15 8:26 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-15 11:48 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-04-17 13:14 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-17 13:00 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-17 13:35 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <F1194F3CF3ADD35D3B0DF261@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-17 14:03 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-04-18 16:23 ` ron minnich
2009-04-18 16:29 ` lucio
2009-04-17 14:08 ` Steve Simon
2009-04-17 16:08 ` hiro [this message]
2009-04-17 19:26 ` Gorka Guardiola
2009-04-20 10:41 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-20 11:52 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-04-20 15:02 ` Uriel
2009-04-20 16:21 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-20 18:57 ` Steve Simon
2009-04-20 20:22 ` David Leimbach
2009-04-18 0:13 ` Robert Raschke
2009-04-18 5:47 ` lucio
2009-04-18 6:03 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 6:11 ` lucio
2009-04-18 6:08 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-18 16:15 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 16:20 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-18 16:34 ` J.R. Mauro
[not found] ` <87DD0DBADB1647F789D9EB63@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-18 16:19 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 18:29 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <0AE52A74098A8B999540233C@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-18 19:43 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 19:34 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <B6FF436789F29A3B7977687E@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-18 20:44 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-20 10:41 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-20 18:13 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-22 12:19 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-22 13:09 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-04-20 10:41 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-20 10:41 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-15 13:52 ` lucio
2009-04-15 13:32 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-15 16:00 ` Steve Simon
2009-04-15 16:09 ` ron minnich
[not found] ` <69CBEA1CA346E38D7A5C7507@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-15 13:02 ` hiro
2009-04-15 13:05 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-15 12:50 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-15 14:00 ` Navin Johnson
2009-04-15 14:39 ` hugo rivera
2009-04-16 14:07 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-17 13:14 ` Jim
2009-04-14 14:46 Jim Habegger
2009-04-14 15:41 ` maht
2009-04-14 19:43 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2009-04-14 23:28 ` Jim Habegger
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