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This is ratpoison.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.0 from
ratpoison.texi.
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* ratpoison: (ratpoison). Say good-bye to the rodent
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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.
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* Menu:
* About:: What is ratpoison?
* Contacting:: How do I contact the ratpoison developers?
* Using ratpoison:: Key commands and functionality
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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
(<sabetts@users.sourceforge.net>).
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Contacting
**********
ratpoison is hosted on <sourceforge.net>. To see the latest
developments in ratpoison go to
<http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ratpoison> or visit the ratpoison
webpage at <http://ratpoison.sourceforge.net>.
There is also a ratpoison mailing list:
<ratpoison-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>. For details on subscribing and
for the list archives go to the ratpoison sourceforge.net project.
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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-<n>'
where `<n>' 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-<n>'
This jumps you to window <n> where <n> 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.
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