[9fans] Plan 9 keyboard and mouse
Hello! I'm a relatively new user to plan 9, and I am studying it as part of an elective unit at university for free and open source software development. So far the experience is interesting and I am using a plan9 port to test out the features of plan9. I have a question about keyboard and mouse interaction in the OS that relates to fast keys available for the windows. Do any exist for use of say windows switching, closing or any other operations for menus within plan 9?
Re: [9fans] Plan 9 keyboard and mouse
I have a question about keyboard and mouse interaction in the OS that relates to fast keys available for the windows. Do any exist for use of say windows switching, closing or any other operations for menus within plan 9? The fast keys are mouse buttons, that's it. Just take it: once you get used to it you'll feel allright about this.
Re: [9fans] Plan 9 keyboard and mouse
On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Yaroslav wrote: I have a question about keyboard and mouse interaction in the OS that relates to fast keys available for the windows. Do any exist for use of say windows switching, closing or any other operations for menus within plan 9? The fast keys are mouse buttons, that's it. Just take it: once you get used to it you'll feel allright about this. I believe sl wrote a program that lets you group windows onto function keys (so pushing the function key for a window group will cycle through the windows) that's not part of the main distribution though. If your having trouble with windows getting buried, winwatch will list open windows and let you switch between them with the mouse (this was an issue I had when I first started playing with plan9).
Re: [9fans] Plan 9 keyboard and mouse
On Apr 24, 2012 10:21 AM, Stephen Wiley swwi...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Yaroslav wrote: I have a question about keyboard and mouse interaction in the OS that relates to fast keys available for the windows. Do any exist for use of say windows switching, closing or any other operations for menus within plan 9? The fast keys are mouse buttons, that's it. Just take it: once you get used to it you'll feel allright about this. I believe sl wrote a program that lets you group windows onto function keys (so pushing the function key for a window group will cycle through the windows) that's not part of the main distribution though. If your having trouble with windows getting buried, winwatch will list open windows and let you switch between them with the mouse (this was an issue I had when I first started playing with plan9). I'm adding similar functionality to the windows alt-tab to my mod of Rio. The function keys thing sounds cool though. Where is the source for that? -- Veety
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I believe sl wrote a program that lets you group windows onto function keys Specifically, taruti hacked rio to map certain windows to a tag (similar to dwm) by writing stings to /dev/wctl, then switch between the tags by hitting a function key, which brings all the windows in the given tag to the top. I packaged this for 9front and included some scripts that I launch from my riostart to setup my environment: http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/pkg/386/hjrio-2012.04.17.tbz Unpack over / and the source will be installed in /sys/src/pkg/hjrio-2012.04.17 (no binaries will be installed on the system until you run 'mk install' in the source directory). So far as I know, I'm the only person who actually uses this code. My rio environment is comprised of four general sections, constructed by four (included) rc scripts. The four scripts -- header, verso, recto and spread -- organize the screen as follows: header the following are always visible winwatch faces weather ticker displayed via aux/statusmsg stats verso tag one several irc7 windows displaying one channel per window recto tag one tw tag three kprint ssh session to openbsd telnet session to 9bbs tag five nedmail spread tag two sam These are in turn launched from my riostart: % cat $home/lib/riostart #!/bin/rc header spread recto verso -i if(~ $sysname mt*) recto -6 if not recto -3 In the end, it all looks something like this: http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/rio/img/tagone.png http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/rio/img/tagtwo.png http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/rio/img/tagthree.png http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/rio/img/tagfour.png http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/rio/img/tagfive.png The result is that the environment snaps into being whenever I boot my terminal. I switch between tags by hitting the corresponding function key (f1 for tag one, f2 for tag two, and so on). In practice, I almost never have to create or destroy windows unless I'm doing something temporary or unusual. -sl
Re: [9fans] Plan 9 keyboard and mouse
sl wrote: http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/rio/img/tagfour.png Wow, I didn't know linuxemu got so good. -- Aram Hăvărneanu
Re: [9fans] Plan 9 keyboard and mouse
sl wrote: http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/rio/img/tagfour.png Wow, I didn't know linuxemu got so good. Ah. I left this one out of my description: spread tag four vncv connected to a headless openbsd machine The available mroot for linuxemu is still based on Debian Sarge, which can't quite manage Chrome or Chromium. The newest working browser I've found for that environment is opera_10.11.4791.gcc3.qt3_i386.deb. Some points on using linuxemu with equis: - No shared snarf buffer, unlike with vncv - Unpredictable instability, resource exhaustion, etc. - Even Opera 10.11 is incompatible with many modern sites -sl
