NAME¶
drawterm - connect to Plan 9 CPU servers from other operating systems
SYNOPSIS¶
drawterm [
-d] [
-a authserver] [
-c
cpuserver] [
-e encription_hash_algs] [
-k
keyspec] [
-s secstoreserver] [
-u username]
[
-C command args ...]
DESCRIPTION¶
drawterm is not a Plan 9 program. It is a program that users of non-Plan
9 systems can use to establish graphical
cpu(1) connections with Plan 9
CPU servers. Just as a real Plan 9 terminal does, a
drawterm serves its
local name space as well as some devices (the keyboard, mouse, and screen) to
a remote CPU server, which mounts this name space on
/mnt/term and
starts a shell. Typically, either explicitly or via the profile, one uses the
shell to start
rio(1).
By default, drawterm uses the CPU server
$cpu or
cpu, and the
authentication server
$auth or
auth,
OPTIONS¶
This program follows the syntax of the cpu(1) Plan 9 command.
A summary of options is included below.
- -h
- Show summary of options.
- -a
- Specifies the authentication server to use. If not present uses the
$auth environment variable, if present, or tries with a host name
of auth.
- -c
- Specifies the cpu server to use. If not present uses the $cpu
environment variable, if present, or tries with a host name of
cpu.
- -u
- Specifies the username to authenticate with. If not present uses the
$USER environment variable, if present, or asks interactively for
an username.
- -s
- Specifies the secstore server to use.
- -C
- Specifies a command to be executed remotely.
- -e,-k
- Allow for selecting the hash algorithm and keys used, they have the same
meaning as in cpu(1).
SOURCE¶
In Plan 9 distributions,
/sys/src/cmd/unix/drawterm.
DIAGNOSTICS¶
Drawterm prints most diagnostics in its own window.
BUGS¶
Although at first
drawterm may seem like a Plan 9 terminal, in fact it is
just a way to provide a CPU server with some terminal devices. The difference
is important because one cannot run terminal-resident programs when using
drawterm. The illusion can be improved by delicate adjustments in
/usr/$user/lib/profile.
Should import latest /dev/draw to allow resize of window
Should copy 9term code and make console window a real 9term window instead.
Should implement /dev/label.
SEE ALSO¶
cpu(1),
rio(1) in the Plan 9 documentation
AUTHOR¶
drawterm was written by Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>.
This manual page was written by Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>, with
modifications by Martín Ferrari <tincho@debian.org> for the
Debian project.