In all seriousness, it seems to me that interest in Plan 9 will continue to grow from here, especially with 9front taking the lead and actually moving ahead with real development.
Nice. I like the idea of simple and small. I’ve had a look at Plan 9 some years ago and had the impression it was mostly dead. Nice to hear that there is some movement.
As in a less mouse-driven way to move around? Or just a straight up different window manager?
For the first, 9front has extras on top of Plan 9 – riow(1) and a /dev/kbdtap device described in rio(4) – to allow for more keyboard-driven workflows. It can make rio into a sort of mouse-driven i3/ratpoison-ish thing… kind of.
I autostart it with rio like this:
riow </dev/kbdtap >/dev/kbdtap |[3] mybar
where mybar is a shell function that prints the status bar at the bottom of the screen. That part is used to intercept mouse clicks and turn them into commands for the audio player, zuke.
![[rio] Plan 9 is not UNIX](http://9p.sdf.org/who/bubstance/img/9front-rio_mono.png){kind=link}
Amazing. Do you feel that it has a future?
I certainly hope so.
In all seriousness, it seems to me that interest in Plan 9 will continue to grow from here, especially with 9front taking the lead and actually moving ahead with real development.
Nice. I like the idea of simple and small. I’ve had a look at Plan 9 some years ago and had the impression it was mostly dead. Nice to hear that there is some movement.
I feel like that if some alternative wm came out 9front would be more successful
As in a less mouse-driven way to move around? Or just a straight up different window manager?
For the first, 9front has extras on top of Plan 9 –
riow(1)and a/dev/kbdtapdevice described inrio(4)– to allow for more keyboard-driven workflows. It can makeriointo a sort of mouse-driveni3/ratpoison-ish thing… kind of.I autostart it with
riolike this:where
mybaris a shell function that prints the status bar at the bottom of the screen. That part is used to intercept mouse clicks and turn them into commands for the audio player,zuke.