This post is about experimenting with imitating and extending the window management concepts from the venerable Plan9, Rio. The backstory and motivation is simply that I’ve had the need for a smaller and more ‘hackable’ base than the feature-heavy Durden environment for a while, and this seemed like a very nice fit.
Neat stuff. Arcan probably won’t take over the world, but it’s a fascinating take on a GUI for Linux and *BSD that’s completely unlike X11.