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Title: Making Unix a little more Plan9-like
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I'm not really interested in defending anything.
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I tried out plan9port and liked it,
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but I have to live in Unix land.
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Here's how I set that up.
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A Warning
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The suckless community,
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and some of the plan9 communities,
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are dominated by assholes.
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I hope that's strong enough wording to impress the severity.
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Don't go into IRC for help.
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Stay off the suckless email list.
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The software is great,
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the people who write it are well-spoken and well-reasoned,
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but for some reason the fandom is horrible to everyone.
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xterm
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9term has some really cool ideas.
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But Unix has a long history of using graphical terminals,
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and lots of stuff needs VT220 compatibility.
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xterm is a good compromise.
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You can make the xterm scroll bar (and all other Athena scrollbars) prettier
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with this in your X resources:
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*Scrollbar.thickness: 10
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*Scrollbar.thumb: None
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*Scrollbar.foreground: gray80
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*Scrollbar.background: gray50
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*Scrollbar.borderWidth: 3
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*ScrollBarBorder: 0
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This will swap the left and right mouse buttons,
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to work like acme and 9term:
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*Scrollbar.translations: #override\
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<Btn1Down>: StartScroll(Backward) \n\
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<Btn3Down>: StartScroll(Forward) \n\
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<BtnUp>: NotifyScroll(Proportional) EndScroll()
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A side note:
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if xrdb is never run and your root window doesn't have a
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`RESOURCE_MANAGER` property set,
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libXaw will read `$HOME/.Xdefaults`.
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This is supposedly deprecated,
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but Xaw is so ancient it will probably never be removed.
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9wm
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I'm now maintaining the 9wm window manager.
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If you like rio you should give it a whirl,
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there are some differences you might prefer.
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http://woozle.org/neale/g.cgi/x11/9wm/
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