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From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Bounties
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:43:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c2e3e1c-99a4-4caf-9ab4-615035aec1f8@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <134490038A9377D966659F986F257F34@ewsd.inri.net>

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020, at 12:47 AM, sl@stanleylieber.com wrote:
> This is trivial to implement with existing tools:
> 
> 	; font=/lib/font/bit/lucidasans/boldunicode.7.font \
> 		@{while(){ hstats; sleep 60 }} | \
> 		aux/statusmsg -w 1082,5,1400,59 &	# [0]

I always forget about statusmsg. So we've got this, and rio is scriptable, which leaves 2 things: preventing clients resizing their own window, and keyboard control. I don't suppose it's hard to write a filter for /dev/kbd in C. It would have to run before rio. I think it could wait for rio's files to appear, or wait for rio's /srv file & mount it. This keygrabber could be quite generally useful.

Preventing resizing is a stranger problem. Window clients need to be prevented, but the keygrabber allowed. Or, one could simply not worry about it. Only games resize their window, right?

I'm not sure whether I want to take on the job. It might go all right, but I almost always end up frustrated with Plan 9. Actually, I don't; I've got tons of other things to do.


       reply	other threads:[~2020-01-17 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <134490038A9377D966659F986F257F34@ewsd.inri.net>
2020-01-17 14:43 ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2020-01-17 16:05   ` kvik
2020-01-17 21:55     ` Silas McCroskey
2020-01-18  0:23       ` rio wishlists Lyndon Nerenberg
2020-01-18  0:40         ` [9front] " Stanley Lieber
     [not found]           ` <CAFSF3XNfdhb+ViOBmVMQ+5+PnSjCeD+9a9p9e4Ug0EX9==aZvw@mail.gmail.com>
2020-01-18  8:19             ` hiro
2020-01-18  9:53               ` Steve Simon
2020-01-18 10:19                 ` hiro
2020-01-21  8:54               ` Ethan Gardener
2020-01-21  8:57         ` Ethan Gardener
2020-01-21  9:49           ` hiro
2020-01-22 16:30             ` Ethan Gardener
2020-01-22 16:47               ` hiro
2020-01-23 15:09                 ` Ethan Gardener
     [not found]                   ` <CAK0pxsHVpyae1+teTSOAFp=nBoq_r7-aKexh_X=hEDe7hUcReA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                     ` <CAK0pxsFDk=C_+37tKzU=U-TMQLTPcW6MOQ1sgKNBrYhWrj4Bwg@mail.gmail.com>
2020-01-23 18:12                       ` Marshall Conover
2020-01-23 21:23                         ` hiro
2020-01-23 22:42                           ` Julius Schmidt
2020-01-24  0:39                             ` Ethan Gardener
2020-01-24  0:44                               ` Ethan Gardener
2020-01-23 23:50                         ` Ethan Gardener
2020-01-24  0:59                           ` Jeremy Jackins
2020-01-24 10:04                             ` hiro
2020-01-21  8:37     ` [9front] Bounties Ethan Gardener
2020-01-22 17:04     ` Ori Bernstein
     [not found] <FEFDF1EDDEF96554EC8D099B3EFFBCE2@ewsd.inri.net>
2020-01-17  0:57 ` umbraticus
2020-01-05  7:06 Bounties Jens Staal
2020-01-16 18:05 ` [9front] Bounties Ethan Gardener
2020-01-17  0:47   ` sl
2020-01-16 18:51 ` Calvin Morrison
2020-01-16 19:35 ` Calvin Morrison
2020-01-16 23:03   ` Ethan Gardener

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