Comments on: Ratpoison: an efficient and minimalist WM.

By: rogue

rogue — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:58:50 +0000

Thanks for the tips Dion! I just started using ratpoison about a week ago and I’m loving it. The Ctrl+t thing bugged me a little bit though from the start; and so remapping it to Caps Lock is great!

On a side note, it is not possible to comment the xmodmap file that you create in your home dir without X throwing errors. Maybe everyone knows that, I didn’t. :)

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By: Dion Moult

Dion Moult — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:57:29 +0000

@Hessiess: remind me to check out DWM ;)

My hands are somewhat weird in the respect that they tend to sweat profusely when interacting with certain materials – one of these is the material used in track pads – hence making them completely useless for me. Ratpoison is a huge lifesaver in this case, especially when on the go.

By: Hessiess

Hessiess — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:25:46 +0000

One aria where tiling WMs rally shine is on laptops with those awful touch pad mice. Personally I feel that user interfaces on laptops should be completely redesigned to be mouse free, it is massively more convenient that struggling with twitchy touch pad mice and you don’t need to carry around a reel mouse, or find some were stable for using one.

I use a customised version of dwm (no bar, wasted too much screen space) and have also bean playing with stumpwm, DWM’s auto tiling is much more efferent as it completely removes the need to manage windows manually, saving a lot of time.

I also have application launchers for commonly used programs mapped to the keyboard, i.e. super+c lauch XFCE terminal, super+f launch firefox etc.

By: Dion Moult

Dion Moult — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:14:16 +0000

@deadcabbit: Agreed, even though most terminal apps feel right at home there, some GUI apps can get you feeling a bit irksome – eg: Dolphin.

By: deadcabbit

deadcabbit — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:20:30 +0000

I used ratpoison a bit, but I found it way too minimal for me: it’s like “screen” in a big xterm window – and while the screen splitting works for some apps, it’s a pain for others.