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.
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
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