Introduction to getting around. The User Interface of Plan9 / 9Front

[@Oregun]

Thanks! Just discovered your channel the other day and I'm really enjoying the Plan9 stuff. I really like the simplicity of the gui. Your run through is very helpful, thanks!

[@sirjofri]

It's always nice to see more 9 content on mainstream media, especially videos. Many people today learn using videos and I'm glad that Plan 9 users are making videos and tutorials. I'm a 9front user myself, for more than three years, and I know the community well. Are you active in the communities somewhere? If you need help with some more advanced topics feel free to reach out to the community. I found many helpful people there, and I personally am always glad when I can help people.

[@adventuresin9]

I'm glad people appreciate the videos. I do lurk around various community sites. I'm in the middle of a move right now, so these videos are mostly just me documenting putting my system back together. So for now, it is a lot of introductory stuff. In a month, I hope to have everything out of storage and get into some more advanced topics.

[@lucacagnolati5530]

Successfully installed on a mac mini on external hdrive for alternative boot Now i m trying navigate into It Thank You for these guides Looks likes My journey is starting now

[@kromt-f2c]

Thank you, sir, for this video! Thanks to you I started reading the manuals and thanks to reading rio(1) I discovered the terminal control characters (control-A, control-E, control-B) are working and what "hold mode" is (I think it is a great thing, but it for some reason doesn't work in acme or sam). What also surprised me is that the output from wloc and the desired format in riostart is different. For example: output from wloc: window -r 0 0 144 648 stats desired format in riostart: window 0,0,144,648 stats ... (when I use the format in riostart that is the output from wloc, the window does not open and an error message "...bad rectanble in wctl request" is displayed).

[@adventuresin9]

That's odd. My riostart script has -r, and everything loads fine.

[@kromt-f2c]

@@adventuresin9 Thank you. Anyway - any idea why this works: winwatch -e '^(stats|clock)' and this does not: window winwatch -e '^(stats|clock)' ?

[@Jalae]

knowing the functionality of send and the nuance of the scroll bar/wheel woulda been nice a year and a half ago...

[@adventuresin9]

It's never to late to learn.

[@smorrow]

"The scroll bar works different than most other systems too" XTerm actually has the same scroll bar behaviour.

[@adventuresin9]

That's interesting. I never really noticed. Most Linux distros I've used lately just come with a window manager or terminal emulator that use the left button to move the scroll bar. And before that, I always had the habit to pipe things into less.

[@smorrow]

Vdiff can be used a less equivalent in a sense. No regex search though

[@gl3nda96]

It is so sad that Plan 9 didn't receive mainstream attention when it needed it. Instead, we gave attention to IPhones. 😥 Now all we can do is woe. This system is truly a masterpiece. This was way ahead of its time and is _still_ way ahead of our time.

[@adventuresin9]

It took over 20 years for Unix to go through being a one off lab project, to a university research toy, to something that could be sold, to the backbone of the Internet. I think as more and more things get more sophisticated computers in them, and need to talk to others, we will end up back to Plan 9. For now, it is a research toy.

[@0011101001101]

What I noticed about scrolling: The left mouse button moves the line you click to the top. The right mouse button moves the line at the top to where you click.

[@adventuresin9]

Yes, and the middle button will jump to a specific area. It takes a little getting used to.

[@mosesolsonmd4063]

Is there anything other than mothra?

[@adventuresin9]

There is Abaco, which is the default browser on legacy Plan9. There is also a Netsurf port github.com/netsurf-plan9/nsport

[@KatzRool]

9th

[@yxyk-fr]

I was a 9wm user on Linux for a long time in the 200x years, it was so lightweight 😀 and also quite cumbersome sometimes but who cares ?

[@alexalexx3512]

I still dont know wtf this is. I just saw a comment on Mental Outlaw's video XD

[@adventuresin9]

It's about using Plan 9. A research operating system developed at Bell Labs. Stay tuned, I'll be making more interesting videos. This one is just covering some basics.

[@smorrow]

What was the comment?