From: "Jeremy O'Brien" <neutral@fastmail.com>
To: "g_patrickb via 9fans" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 08:41:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f61063b9-677b-4682-97d7-d77000dbf438@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A7B5E216-61CA-423C-9B3E-511E90F0B7CC@gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 07:19, Kim Lassila wrote:
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>
>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> Kim
http://man.9front.org/1/vnc ?
Unless you're talking about legacy Plan 9?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-25 12:42 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 [this message]
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
2020-03-27 12:21 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-03-31 8:52 ` yy
2020-03-31 10:58 ` Ethan Gardener
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