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Ratpoison - http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/

• silentbicycle 17y ago
  Could you explain why this is relevant, rather than just linking to it?
  • jacobolus 17y ago
    It's not really that relevant IMO, but maybe fans of screen want to extend the screen approach to their whole computing experience? That's basically the goal of ratpoison, which is a window manager based around the idea of tiling and complete control via the keyboard, overall much simpler than KWin, etc.
    • silentbicycle 17y ago
      I knew why, but I've actually had much better luck with dwm (http://dwm.suckless.org/ http://dwm.suckless.org/) * . The automatically-tiled / multiple desktops interface style works verrry well with a keyboard-centric usage style, but also more gracefully accommodates programs that expect a more conventional UI - ratpoison just seems to give up. (I used ratpoison exclusively for probably three or four years.) * Other people have also had good experience with XMonad (http://xmonad.org/ http://xmonad.org/) or awesome (http://awesome.naquadah.org/ http://awesome.naquadah.org/), though the former requires Haskell (I got burned by GHC's portability issues, and requiring GHC for a window manager strikes me as a bit silly), and awesome strikes me as a bit dodgy.
    • mkelly 17y ago
      On that note, I've just started using ion3 (http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/ http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/), which is a similarly-focused tiling, keyboard-friendly window manager. I'm still unsure about how useful it is on my laptop, but at work where I have huge monitors, it's great. I never move my windows anyway, so there's no point in spending time aligning them, or wasting the space between them. It is still awkward for certain applications, though.