Re: [9fans] Start acme maximized

2012-11-13 Thread Salman Aljammaz
The -W argument lets you set the size of the window. Not quite maximized but you can make it use the same space. On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Costin Chirvasuta cost...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, Is there any way to make acme from p9p start maximized in Linux? I have a devilspie script that

Re: [9fans] insert 'control a' into a text in acme

2012-06-01 Thread Salman Aljammaz
or execute unicode 10 from the tag. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Skip Tavakkolian skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote: execute: unicode 10 and copy the output to where you need.

Re: [9fans] factotum auth for commodity web browsers?

2011-11-22 Thread Salman Aljammaz
I don't know if any exist out there, but I've been thinking of trying to hack something together recently. I've gone as far as compiling Chromium from source. (A major step on its own!) This came to me after rediscovering WebID (previously known as foaf+ssl) which uses client-side certificates.

Re: [9fans] OT: how do 9fans backup their Mac(book)?

2011-10-02 Thread Salman Aljammaz
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 4:07 AM, steve jenkin stevej...@gmail.com wrote: erik quanstrom wrote on 2/10/11 1:37 PM: it's all block storage. Nope. In the same way that RAM is finely differentiated with many incompatibilities 'gotchas'. It's not all memory. Go away and actually *do* the

Re: [9fans] plan9port: cocoa programmer needed

2011-08-26 Thread Salman Aljammaz
       swipe-left to cut (cmd+x),        swipe-right to paste (cmd+v),        swipe-up to execute (button 2),        swipe-down to execute with arguments (2-1 chord),        pinch to toggle fullscreen. nice! and only 2 days after i stopped using os x... i'll have a stab at doing something

Re: [9fans] how to make p9p/rio the default window manager? (ubuntu)

2011-08-19 Thread Salman Aljammaz
You could put this in your $HOME/.xinitrc file (plumber and factotum are optional) plumber factotum exec rio It should run when you use 'startx' When I last used Ubuntu however .xinitrc seemed to be omitted from GDM. A quick google brings this up http://subforge.org/blogs/show/13

Re: [9fans] simple venti demo:

2011-08-11 Thread Salman Aljammaz
a better approach might be to separate the libraries from the much larger distribution of plan 9-based commands etc, and make them available in the usual way as packages to import using the (many different) package managers on Unix-like systems. this is what i was looking into just this

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-02 Thread Salman Aljammaz
why is everyone on about native web? what does that even mean? http://diveintomark.org/archives/2011/04/15/nativity-scene (sorry, couldn't resist!) salman On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:29 AM, errno er...@cox.net wrote: Running a plan 9 hosted inferno is essentially another take on the vnc or

Re: [9fans] Woes of New Language Support

2009-07-26 Thread Salman Aljammaz
erik quanstrom wrote: yes. this is a problem. unfortunately the unicode guys took the position that codepoint is divorced from glyphs unfortunately, this case isn't as bad as it gets. e.g. archaic cryllic letters have transliterations like ^^A in unicode. would three hats on an A be

Re: [9fans] plan9port behind corporate firewall with no DNS or port access

2009-07-25 Thread Salman Aljammaz
Uriel wrote: If your work firewall proxies port 80, then things get trickier, you could mount sources on the home inferno instance, and then export it using mjl's httpd as a read-only http 'tree'. assuming you've got openssh, one trick i used to do back in school was run sshd on on port 443.