Re: [9fans] rio on plan 9 from user space

2016-05-29 Thread Erik Quanstrom
xnest is your friend!  one can run x within x, then run a new wm.  it's also possible to kill then restart your main wm.

Re: [9fans] rio on plan 9 from user space

2016-05-29 Thread hiro
Yes, rio needs whole display in Xorg. Xorg is a huge complex beast, can't do the same things as on plan9 easily. It makes no sense to me that you want to run *both* xfce and rio anyway. Decide on the one that is more useful for you. what's your latency to the cpu server? if you're limited by high

[9fans] rio on plan 9 from user space

2016-05-28 Thread jfmxl
On another tack ... I have installed plan 9 from user space on my debian machine, and sam and acme seem to open and work ok. But when I type rio, I get ... $ rio rio: it looks like there's already a window manager running; rio not started So, rio under plan 9 from user space (p9port?) wants