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It is called
rio(1)and it comes with Plan 9.There is a Unix/X11 port that contains most of the Plan 9 userspace—including a version of
rio—called plan9port.It is not nearly as good as using the real thing.
They got a DE built in and say GNU is bloated. Foolishness