Writing a console replacement using Arcan | Arcan
In this article, I will show just how little effort that it takes to specify graphics and window management sufficient enough to provide features that surpass kmscon and the ‘regular’ l…| Arcan
In this article, I will show just how little effort that it takes to specify graphics and window management sufficient enough to provide features that surpass kmscon and the ‘regular’ l…| Arcan
This is the final part concluding the long journey on how to migrate away from terminal emulation as the main building block for command-lines, text-dominant shells and user interfaces in general. …| Arcan
Just as we concluded our first NLnet grant, it is also time to say goodbye to the second phase of the project, ‘anarchy on the desktop’, and enter the third and final one. As per the ol…| Arcan
Continuing the series on using the various Arcan APIs, we get to another use case that works a bit differently here than elsewhere. What makes it interesting enough for a post is how the low and hi…| Arcan
This is the third part in the ongoing series exploring the different levels of APIs that are available for Arcan clients. For reference, the previous parts in the series are here: In this part, we …| Arcan
disclaimer: this is a technical post aimed at developers being somewhat aware of the problem space. There will be a concluding ‘the day of…’ post aimed at end users where some of …| Arcan
Our reference desktop environment, Durden, rarely gets covered here these days. This is mostly due to the major features are since long in place and that part of the project is biding its time with smaller fixes while waiting for … Continue reading →| Arcan
This is a technical description of the IPC system used throughout the Arcan project, from both a designer and developer perspective, with annotations on legacy and considerations along the way. It&…| Arcan
I spend most of my time digging through software-in-execution rather than software-at-rest (e.g. source code). Sometimes the subject of study is malware hissing like a snake and lashing out at the …| Arcan
Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely…| Arcan
Time to continue the journey towards better CLI shells without the constraints of terminal emulation. In the previous post we looked into the new commands list and stash. List was for providing an …| Arcan
There has been numerous quality of life improvements added to our terminal emulation liberated command-line environment, Lash, to the curses-like “libarcan-tui” it relies on, but partic…| Arcan
It has been well over a year since last time, but also some fairly beefy updates to sum up for our dear old Desktop Engine. Strap in. In general project news, there are both grim and good ones. Sta…| Arcan
This is a higher level update on what has been going on with the current focus topic for Arcan releases, that is the network transparency (2020). It comes as a companion to the upcoming release pos…| Arcan
This article is an overview of accessibility and security efforts in Arcan “the desktop engine”: past, present and those just around the corner. It is not the great and detailed one I h…| Arcan
This article introduces the first release of ‘Lash#Cat9’, a different kind of command-line shell. A big change is that it is communicating with the display server directly, instead of b…| Arcan
Time to continue to explain what Arcan actually “is” on a higher level. Previous articles have invited the comparison to Xorg ( part1, part2 ). Another possibility would have been Plan9…| Arcan
Now for something completely different. In the spiritual vein of One Night in Rio: Vacation photos from Plan9 and AWK for multimedia, here is a tool that is the link that ties almost all the projec…| Arcan
Hot on the heels of the recent Arcan release, it is also time for a release to our reference desktop environment ‘Durden’. To refresh memory somewhat, the closest valid comparison is pr…| Arcan
This is the follow-up to the ‘Arcan versus Xorg: approaching feature parity’ article which is recommended reading if you have not done so already. After that article, there was on…| Arcan
This article continues the long-lost series on how to migrate away from terminal protocols as the main building block for command-line and text-dominant user interfaces. The previous ones (Chasing …| Arcan
