Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

[Ethan Gardener]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020, at 9:52 AM, yy wrote:
> 
> In case there is any interest, I would be glad of helping to port
> devwsys: https://bitbucket.org/yiyus/devwsys-prev/src/default/
> 
> Even if the goal is to have drawterm, this may be an easier middle
> step, since it would allow you to get something working first, and
> later you could use the same devices from drawterm.

indeed. it could be bound to drawterm -G if android or ios lets them talk to 
each other.

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Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

[yy]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 07:40, Anthony Sorace  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?
>

In case there is any interest, I would be glad of helping to port
devwsys: https://bitbucket.org/yiyus/devwsys-prev/src/default/

Even if the goal is to have drawterm, this may be an easier middle
step, since it would allow you to get something working first, and
later you could use the same devices from drawterm.


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Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

[Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen]

I think I agree. Besides, drawterm isn't that bad even over high-latency
VPN. I experimented a bit by running drawterm at work against a plan9
server at home, and it was quite usable, and much better than Emacs running
over X using the same connection. Of course, Emacs IS notoriously bad at
this...

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 6:28 PM Anthony Sorace  wrote:

> VNC is great for what it is, and I certainly wouldn’t object to seeing
> vncs upgraded, but it is not a replacement for drawterm. It does not expose
> local devices in a plan 9 friendly way. In addition to just using drawterm
> as a straightforward terminal, an iOS version would be a very good platform
> for playing around with exposing other capabilities that the device has to
> plan 9. I played around with this a little bit with the original port. VNC
> buys us none of this.
>
> On Mar 25, 2020, at 04:21, Kim Lassila  wrote:
>
> 
>
> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace  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).
>
> 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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Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

[Ethan Gardener]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, at 5:51 AM, Anthony Sorace wrote:
> I mean, c’mon, now it practically *needs* drawterm...
> 
> https://www.instagram.com/p/B-OctqFhNnB/?igshid=rmqsml1hwqck

It also needs to be mounted vertically in a case which looks like the Blit. :D

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Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

[Anthony Sorace]

I mean, c’mon, now it practically *needs* drawterm...

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-OctqFhNnB/?igshid=rmqsml1hwqck

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 10:53, Skip Tavakkolian  
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> rummaging around /mnt/term when using drawterm might be enlightening.
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 4:20 AM Kim Lassila  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace  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). 
>> 
>> 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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Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

[Skip Tavakkolian]

rummaging around /mnt/term when using drawterm might be enlightening.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 4:20 AM Kim Lassila  wrote:

>
>
> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace  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).
>
> 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
>
> *9fans * / 9fans / see discussions
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>  Permalink
> 
>

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Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

[Ethan Gardener]

how about vnc + drawterm -G; 2 connections? just a wild suggestion. -G (no 
graphics) is a feature of 9front's drawterm, but i think it should connect to 
labs.

red cursor is a little 9front hack; it's transparent to red only. i'm sure it 
could be reverted fairly easily, but the cursor is too small when the dpi is 
very high. client-side cursor would be much larger on my windows machines, 
presumably others too.

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Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

[ori]

> Yes, I have tested vncs and vncv in 9front. They were written for the old 
> protocol version 3.3 which does not support local mouse cursor or resizing 
> the screen. It would improve the usability quite a bit if support for the 
> latest protocol was added to these programs. Mouse cursor drawn by vncs is 
> red, choppy and lags the real hardware cursor. It would be a lot better if 
> vncs supported the local mouse cursor extension available in the newer 
> protocol version.

When did you test? Support for resizing landed in the client, at least, in
2018, and works fine for me. 

changeset:   6677:5b0b9082b2c3
user:cinap_len...@felloff.net
date:Mon Aug 20 19:23:42 2018 +0200
summary: vncs: support for desktop resize extension, update devdraw

I use it regularly when I need to view web pages -- I VNC into a Vultr VPS
running Chrome.

I can't speak to the server side support, though, since I usually just use
rcpu when speaking to plan 9 systems, or drawterm when on Unix. Especially
over fast networks, I find it much more responsive, and exposing local
devices through /mnt/term makes using it much nicer.


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Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

[Anthony Sorace]

VNC is great for what it is, and I certainly wouldn’t object to seeing vncs 
upgraded, but it is not a replacement for drawterm. It does not expose local 
devices in a plan 9 friendly way. In addition to just using drawterm as a 
straightforward terminal, an iOS version would be a very good platform for 
playing around with exposing other capabilities that the device has to plan 9. 
I played around with this a little bit with the original port. VNC buys us none 
of this.

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 04:21, Kim Lassila  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace  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). 
> 
> 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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Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

[Kim Lassila]

On Mar 25, 2020, at 14:42, Jeremy O'Brien  wrote:
> 
> http://man.9front.org/1/vnc ?
> 
> Unless you're talking about legacy Plan 9?

Yes, I have tested vncs and vncv in 9front. They were written for the old 
protocol version 3.3 which does not support local mouse cursor or resizing the 
screen. It would improve the usability quite a bit if support for the latest 
protocol was added to these programs. Mouse cursor drawn by vncs is red, choppy 
and lags the real hardware cursor. It would be a lot better if vncs supported 
the local mouse cursor extension available in the newer protocol version.

Kim
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Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

[Jeremy O'Brien]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 07:19, Kim Lassila wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace  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). 
> 
> 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

http://man.9front.org/1/vnc ?

Unless you're talking about legacy Plan 9?

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Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

[Kim Lassila]

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace  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 ). 

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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[9fans] iOS drawterm

[Anthony Sorace]

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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