From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:08:18 +0200 Message-ID: From: hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e22d3bdc-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> 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 ;)