The tiling part of it is optional, you can have every window ( apart from application popups etc ) open in a brand new "virtual" screen as with GNU Screen. You can do that from any application or script.all you need to do is run `ratpoison -c "echo "`).ģ. It has a "message system" that pops up (which can be used to warn about low battery stuff etc. First of all it's very lightweight and HIGLY customisable.Ģ. Add "banish" to your config to make the cursor jump to the lower-right corner of your screen if you don't use a mouse.ġ. ![]() If you have a server like I do that doesn't even have a mouse, this WM can be very helpful. The name might seem a bit odd.but it comes from the fact that you DO NOT need a mouse to control this WM (other tilers say the same but there is a limited amount of things you can do with only keyboard commands in those). Ratpoison is basically the X version of GNU Screen (default config even shares the same shortcuts). This of course does not mean that you can't tile the windows. The ones that tried (or use) GNU Screen know what I'm talking about. ![]() ![]() Technically Ratpoison is NOT a "tiling" window manager because the default behaviour is not to arrange windows in a tile grid, but to have a separate screen for every window. I must say I'm surprised not many people use Ratpoison (even though I see A LOT of people using tiling window managers)įirst a bit of description ( for whoever has no ideea what it is )
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