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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.