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ratpoison

window manager without mouse dependency

Ratpoison is a simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen which has done wonders in the virtual terminal market. All windows are maximized and kept maximized to take full advantage of your precious screen real estate. All interaction with the window manager is done through keystrokes. ratpoison has a prefix map to minimize the key clobbering that cripples Emacs and other quality pieces of software.

Available in

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gentoo gitweb ↗ 1.4.9-r3 2 17 h details ›

Versions & arches

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9999 LIVE gentoo follows upstream — no keywords view · download · history ↗
1.4.9-r3 gentoo amd64 stable x86 stable hppa testing ppc stable view · download · history ↗

Use flags of 1.4.9-r3

  • debug Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
  • emacs Add support for GNU Emacs
  • +history Use sys-libs/readline for history handling
  • sloppy Install sloppy, a focus-follows-mouse implementation for ratpoison
  • +xft Build with support for XFT font renderer (x11-libs/libXft)
  • +xrandr Enable support for XRandR

Runtime dependencies of 1.4.9-r3

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