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/kbdtap
device described in rio(4)
– to allow for more keyboard-driven workflows. It can make rio
into a sort of mouse-driven i3
/ratpoison
-ish thing… kind of.
I autostart it with rio
like this:
riow </dev/kbdtap >/dev/kbdtap |[3] mybar
where mybar
is 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
.
I think it really is as simple as our dorks from the Labs liking Ed Wood.
Same reason the mascot is named Glenda.