> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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?

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 <https://github.com/9d0/screencast>). 

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. 

Kim


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