This means it starts up quick, doesn’t have many dependencies, and is lightweight on your system space and resources. This is often referred to as “efficient use of screen real estate”. Every single bit of your screen is showing useful information, and nothing more. No wasting space on window borders, taskbars, panels, etc. Secondly, it uses up all your screen space. It’s so fast you can split em, switch em, merge em, and focus on what matters most: your work … not moving around windows so that you get a good look at them. But why, you say, would I enjoy having to design a complex table layout for a simple task? For a number of reasons. It’s time to push that rodent away from your computer and appreciate the keys you already have to input information to your computer.
Not only that, but you can do this using naught but your keyboard. You can resize your cells, switch values from one cell to another, split, remove and merge cells. A table can have rows and columns split up into as weird a configuration you can think of, but there is only one value per cell, and that value cannot overlap another cell. An easy way to visualise this it by thinking of a table. In contrast, windows do not overlap in a tiling window manager. Instead, they tile. For those new to tiling window managers, this is in contrast to most window management systems where windows “float” and overlap one another, and you have the options to maximise, restore, and minimise windows to control their sizes. Ratpoison is a tiling window manager, with a focus on removing the need to use your mouse under any circumstances whatsoever.
ratpoison has a prefix map to minimize the key clobbering that cripples Emacs and other quality pieces of software.Ratpoison: an efficient and minimalist WM Ratpoison: an efficient and minimalist WM All interaction with the window manager is done through keystrokes. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your precious screen real estate. The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen which has done wonders in the virtual terminal market. Ratpoison is a simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. Ratpoison (x11/ratpoison) Add to my watchlist 0 Ratpoison is a simple Window Manager
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