Can't edit email, so here is a follow-up: Would it be easy to provide another QEMU image that is preconfigured to be a cpu server, possibly not requiring graphics? I think it would help a lot.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM Daniel Maslowski <[email protected]> wrote: > A few things here from my side, issues I've run into and solutions/ideas: > > - Running Plan 9 (say, 9front) on a laptop with a touchpad leads to > frustration. A two-finger-tap won't work to spawn the menu. It'd > immediately select creating a new window, and one cannot draw it. I have a > solution in mind that uses a three-finger-tap and three-finger-drawing > instead to spawn a new window. I lack the knowledge to implement that > though. > - Given the QEMU image, one might want to use it as a cpu server, and > connect via drawterm. That currently requires extra configuration that > takes a long time to find out and understand. > - Compiling the 9front drawterm for Wayland needs the wlr-protocols repo, > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlr-protocols - which is not > available as a package on some distros, e.g., current Pop!_OS, which is > based on Ubuntu. Manually cloning that repo and adjusting the build scripts > is a workaround for the time being, but hard to figure out without much > experience. > > Regarding QEMU setups, I found the following to be helpful: > - https://thorjhanson.com/blog/20220324-9front-in-qemu > - https://gist.github.com/baryluk/e9ba5af68d67e14b8a5716a70656d550 > - https://dnjp.roam.garden/Plan9-on-Qemu > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ori and Jacob, you are right; what I am trying to do at this point is >> repro the complaints I receive, and then file issues. >> >> thanks. >> >> On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Quoth ron minnich <[email protected]>: >>> > The CI could include a compile step for drawterm, as people >>> > keep having issues building it. >>> >>> Also, you keep saying this -- but if the bug reports are kept >>> secret, there's no way for us to actually fix this. We already >>> HAVE builds for this, so whatever they're running into isn't >>> reflected in the test setup. >>> >>> Secret bug reports without specific repros don't help anyone. >>> >> *9fans <https://9fans.topicbox.com/latest>* / 9fans / see discussions >> <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans> + participants >> <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/members> + delivery options >> <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription> Permalink >> <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tbe8e5fda6ae62f5c-Ma24ab0dbb29a33bc2379f5b1> >> ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tbe8e5fda6ae62f5c-M55b572e3555f34cdd214041c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
