Then I configure my desktop, setting a padding at the bottom of my screen so my conky setup is displayed smoothly on my screen. To begin I disable the startup message which only says what your keystroke is. The configuration is done in the ~/.ratpoisonrc file:įeh -bg-scale ~/path/to/background/picture.png My screen movements are a lot faster by moving around screens, windows and applications trough my keyboard without physical moving my hands! After some try and error I finally became in love with it. Once I figured that out I started to configure the whole environment for my needs. So if you for example tap in CTRL-T and then SHIFT-V you should see the ratpoison version disclaimer.

It took me some time to figuring out that you had to use a keyboard pre configured strike to get started using the ratpoison functionality.

Nothing happened, I only saw a black background and couldn't do anything. For me that first introduction was like I already mentioned a bit shameful. Once installed you can logout and try to log in after changed your window manager. That installation is not that hard on fedora, since they packaged it in their own repository:

Shameful I have to admit that when I first gave it a try I thought I did something wrong on the installation. Because I could install this window manager nicely next to the existing mate-desktop I gave it a try. So I started by installing mate-desktop.īy playing around and looking how other people are configuring and using their local machines a colleague pointed me to ratpoison. It's not that it's bad, But I just don't like it. Nevertheless I don't like the gnome 3 unity layer. By the time we got new machines I decided to install fedora on it. Once I figured out that it didn't made sense since a laptop has other purposes then a server. The idea behind this was to gain experience on the CentOS distributions. Starting at inuits I tried something else and installed CentOS desktop on my laptop. I liked it a lot and ever since I only used linux on my home based devices. My first steps in linux where on a ubuntu distribution, when you could order the ISO images on a cd-rom delivered by the post.

Ratpoison github