Ratpoison

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Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window...

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Top 13 Best Tiling Window Managers For Linux In 2022

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www.hubtech.org

13 Best Tiling Window Managers for Linux

Ratpoison is a lightweight Window Manager designed to be simple and without fancy graphics, window decorations, or dependence on any other projects. It is modeled after the GNU Screen which is very popular in the virtual terminal community.

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www.tecmint.com

5 Great Tiling Window Managers for Linux

Ratpoison is a simple window manager that has “no fat library dependencies”. The developers boast that it has no “fancy graphics” or “decorations” of any kind, just a straight-up tiling window setup. Ratpoison is easy to get around in. All of the interactions with your windows are done with keyboard shortcuts.

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www.maketecheasier.com

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– AquaSnap (paid) – https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap As a ratpoison [https://ratpoison.nongnu.org/] user, a decade ago, returning to the rigid window management of i3-based window managers, no longer appealed to me. MaxTo provided much of the experience I was looking for, but random crashes when using multiple desktops and my inability to get custom recipes triggering correctly had me look…

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over 2 years ago
It do be like that tho

Or, the alternative is, use a completely command line operating system. No mouse required, ever. Easy peasy! Or, you could just use ratpoison.

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almost 3 years ago
Any tips for my first set up?

I actually use an UI that has no taskbar, buttons, icons, etc. It’s called ratpoison. I definitely don’t think so, but hey, maybe thats what we are seeing here!

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about 3 years ago