Now I’ll try to cover some fundamental functionalities of typical WM’s and how to achieve them in ratpoison. Though you can change it to anything you like, we’re gonna keep calling it ‘C-t’ just for convenience. You’ve just changed your escape sequence to C-z (and saved yourself some finger stretching). Have you noticed a little box in the upper-right corner of the screen? This is where you type ratpoison command (right after ratpoison command prompt ‘:’).
Every command has to be followed by it, and it’s damn uncomfortable to use C-t.
The C-t combination is, what I believe, called the escape sequence. If you press ‘c’, you’re gonna fire up a new terminal session and the pointer will change it’s shape back to default. Now ratpoison is waiting for your command. It should have changed it’s shape to something squerish-like. Press C-t (ctrl and ‘t’ simultaneously or the ‘t’ while holding ctrl) and watch your mouse pointer. First stepsĭon’t panic, it’s all gonna be fine. Next time you see gdm login screen go to ‘Session’ and check ratpoison. Simple as that! You may also disable the autologin feature, if you set it before. X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=ratpoison-sessionĪnd we’re done.
Next, create a file for GDM pointing to ratpoison underĬomment=This session logs you into Ratpoison So let’s get started no time Toulouse!įairly recent ratpoison packages can be found in most official repositories on Debian/Ubuntu type Trying out ratpoison won’t most probably require any changes to your configuration, for in Linux you can switch WM’s like socks. However, it’s simplicity and robustness guarantee that it’s gonna stick around for quite a while. It seems that ratpoison development has slowed down recently.