On 26/11/14 21:57, Henrique Lengler wrote: > Reviving this old thread: > > This is the only thread I found talking about have something like rio on Linux > > After read Rob Pike documents about rio, and window systems in general, I got > very interested in it. > He talks about how window systems can be less complicated, and he describe a > very interesting design of one. This design is used in rio. > So I'm thinking how something like this be implemented in a normal Linux or > BSD. > The three documents that have their links on the footer, have a lot of > information about this design, that I found very interesting. > > If the author of the first post continue interested or already did some work, > I > would like to know. > > What do you guys think? > > The documents: > http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/concurrent_window_system/concurrent_window_system.pdf > http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/3rd_edition/rio/rio_slides.pdf > http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/transparent_wsys/transparent_wsys.pdf > > Regards, >
Hi, rio is available directly as part of plan9port for *nix.[0] Install it via your package manager, and change: exec dwm #or whatever your wm is to: exec 9 rio in your .xinitrc. stxetx. [0] http://swtch.com/plan9port/
