Re: [9fans] Someone made a Wayland compositor based on Rio, Wio

2019-05-02 Thread Fazlul Shahriar
I just gave it a try. Yes, wio can run inside wio. This is what I had to do to build it: git clone https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/wio cd wio git clone https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots.git subprojects/wlroots meson build cd build ninja ./wio # pops up a window with wio fhs On Thu, May 2, 2019 at

Re: [9fans] Someone made a Wayland compositor based on Rio, Wio

2019-05-02 Thread hiro
> Broadly speaking, that's [rio running inside rio] the essence of Rio. i have lately investigated the code of rio, devdraw and memlayer and understood a bit the historic connection to bitblt, etc., and i've been wondering lately where statements like above, which i have heard before, come from.

Re: [9fans] Someone made a Wayland compositor based on Rio, Wio

2019-05-02 Thread hiro
> I just gave it a try. Yes, wio can run inside wio. i didn't try it and i will not, as wayland is promoted as some efficient alternative, but is in practice used in a very wasteful way (so far i thought mostly for distracting 3D animations and scrambling of information that i'd rather have plain

Re: [9fans] Someone made a Wayland compositor based on Rio, Wio

2019-05-02 Thread hiro
> and that seems to me to be the reason why both sam and rio include of course i meant sam and acme ;) thanks mutantturkey

Re: [9fans] Someone made a Wayland compositor based on Rio, Wio

2019-05-02 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
One person's epiphany is another's afterthought. (I've been conditioned by Twitter to not read anything longer than 240 chars. Ditto for responses. I can't speak to points you made later) On Thu, May 2, 2019, 1:21 PM hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Broadly speaking, that's [rio running inside

Re: [9fans] Someone made a Wayland compositor based on Rio, Wio

2019-05-02 Thread Dan Cross
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:24 PM Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > One person's epiphany is another's afterthought. > > (I've been conditioned by Twitter to not read anything longer than 240 > chars. Ditto for responses. I can't speak to points you made later) > It wasn't clear to me that there was a ques

Re: [9fans] Someone made a Wayland compositor based on Rio, Wio

2019-05-02 Thread Bakul Shah
On May 2, 2019, at 4:10 AM, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Broadly speaking, that's [rio running inside rio] the essence of Rio. > > i have lately investigated the code of rio, devdraw and memlayer and > understood a bit the historic connection to bitblt, etc., and i've > been wondering late