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ratpoison keyboard shortcut conflicts

I recently installed ratpoison as my first real foray into tiling window managers. The first problem I ran into is that the Ctrl-t keybinding used for ratpoison commands conflicts with those of other software, such as the new tab command in Mozilla…
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How to change the "power key" for ratpoison window manager

Using the ratpoison window manager, how could I remap the "power key" (which is by default Ctrl-T) to something like the Windows button? I have created a configuration file already (~/.ratpoisonrc) and just need to know how to bind a different key.
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Can one disable tap-to-click in X server configuration, without synclient?

I want to configure my system so that tap-to-click is disabled on the touchpad. (It's running a rather old version of ALTLinux distro with xorg-server-1.4.2-alt10.M41.1.) The most popular advice I have found is to execute synclient MaxTapTime=0 in…
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Key-binding to open a terminal running python in ratpoison

In my .ratpoisonrc file I'm failing to write a key-binding to open a terminal running python. I'm running a minimal Debian setup on which I basically just run emacs. Sometimes I want to just get a python shell and I'm not sure how to set up the…
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What is a good choice for a windowmanager for temporary use?

Ratpoison is my windowmanager of choice and am running a fairly recent version of google chrome and I wish to drag a couple tabs between windows. This used to work, but recent changes in chrome makes it more difficult to drag tabs into a window with…
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Recover GUI window after minimizing in ratpoison

I'm running ratpoison. I was running emacs started through a keybinding (hence no xterm). Then I hit Ctrl-Z by mistake and emacs disappeared (emacs iconify-or-deiconify-frame). I know it is still there, as when I leave ratpoison and go to mwm emacs…
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Super_L fails to bind Win key in .ratpoisonrc

Following the example in the docs ~/.ratpoisonrc # Setting the escape key to the Windows key escape Super_L works fine on one machine. On another however it refers to the Fn key. Both are laptops by the same manufacturer. One difference is one has…
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How to select window in ratpoison without it changing frame

When you use select in ratpoison, sometimes window changes frame. I would like it to always stay in the same frame. Is there any way to achieve that ? I don't want windows jumping around. This depends on the current layout. I use standard windows.sh…
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`ratpoison` doesn't accept cyrillic key commands

After I switch my keyboard layout to cyrillic setxkbmap -layout "us,bg(phonetic)" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle" ratpoison stops recognising keys and only states readkey: Unbound key: Cyrillic_tse However when I switch to a terminal and press the…
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How can I move a window to another monitor in ratpoison?

I am using ratpoison on multiple monitors. Currently, the only I could find to move windows to another monitor, if I first turn off its current monitor (xrandr --output ... --off), and then ctrl/t + num on the monitor I want to use. However, it is…
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How can I switch to window number greater than 10 or higher in Ratpoison?

The current list of the running windows can be shown by a ctrl/t+w . Then I can switch to the window I want with ctrl/t + <0-9>. However, I have more than 10 windows opened. How could I switch to the tenth window?
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Ratpoison WM in Nvidia driven laptop

I have a 5th generation Intel laptop with Nvidia 820M GPU and i wan to use Archlinux/Salix with Ratpoison WM for development purposes. The problem is Ratpoison is ment for lowend computers. What are the chances that I can use it my pc?
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Ratpoison under Xfce4

I want to use Ratpoison as WM but I want the DE goodies from Xfce4. That includes keyboard layout switching while holding a modifier key, switching back on release * tray icon support * notifications multimedia keys like volume gtk skinning (*…
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