This is ratpoison.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.0 from ratpoison.texi. START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * ratpoison: (ratpoison). A rat-free Window Manager. END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY This is the ratpoison user manual. Copyright (C) 2000 Shawn Betts Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that the sections entitled "Copying" and "GNU General Public License" are included exactly as in the original, and provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation. This document explains how to use ratpoison.  File: ratpoison.info, Node: Top, Next: About, Prev: (dir), Up: (dir) * Menu: * About:: What is ratpoison? * Contacting:: How do I contact the ratpoison developers? * Using ratpoison:: Key commands and functionality  File: ratpoison.info, Node: About, Next: Contacting, Prev: Top, Up: Top About ***** ratpoison is a simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no flashy wank. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen which has done wonders in virtual terminal market. 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. You'll also be pleased to hear that there is NO ratpoison.conf to configure. If you want to configure ratpoison, edit the source. ratpoison was written by Shawn Betts ().  File: ratpoison.info, Node: Contacting, Next: Using ratpoison, Prev: About, Up: Top Contacting ********** ratpoison is hosted on . To see the latest developments in ratpoison go to or visit the ratpoison webpage at . There is also a ratpoison mailing list: . For details on subscribing and for the list archives go to the ratpoison sourceforge.net project.  File: ratpoison.info, Node: Using ratpoison, Prev: Contacting, Up: Top Using ratpoison *************** ratpoison is a very simple window manager. Each window is maximized and has no border decorations. Here is a list of commands and what they do: `C-t C-c' This opens a new XTerm. `C-t C-e' This opens a new EMACS session. You will probably only need to do this once. `C-t C-w' This displays the Program Bar which displays the windows you currently have running. The number before each window name is used to jump to that window. You can to this by typing `C-t C-' where `' is the number of the window. Note that only windows with numbers from 0 to 9 can be referenced. After 5 seconds the Program Bar disappears. `C-t C-p' This jumps you to the previous window in the window list. `C-t C-n' This jumps you to the next window in the window list. `C-t C-' This jumps you to window where is the window number as shown in the Program Bar. `C-t C-t' This toggles between the current window and the last window. `C-t t' Sometimes you need to send a C-t to the current window. This keystroke does just that. `C-t k' This deletes the current window. `C-t K' This destroys the current window. Normally you should only need to use `C-t k', but just incase you need to rip the heart out of a misbehaving window this command should do the trick. `C-t C-a' Rename the currently active window. This name will remain for the duration of the window's life. `C-t C-'' Go to a window by name.  Tag Table: Node: Top1119 Node: About1394 Node: Contacting2112 Node: Using ratpoison2623  End Tag Table