Re: Debian Users...
Yves Rutschle <debian.anti-spam@rutschle.net> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:19:46PM -0500, Ryan M. Golbeck wrote:
>> apt-get install ratpoison
>
> ratpoison looks interesting (I never actually tried it,
> because I ran into ION first and fell in love).
>
> The idea of only having one, full-screen frame at a time
> seem to reductionnist to me, though. On a large screen, I
> will typically want to have gkrellm or similar monitors, an
> editor and a shell (to compile and run), which I really
> want to have all at the same time (I'm greedy).
You can split the window up. It's not aways just one fullscreen frame
at a time. I often have 2 emacs frames side-by-side, etc. You should
check it out if you haven't tried it.
>> As for which one came up with the idea, I think it's arguable.
>
> Fair enough. I'll reword by saying it's one of the very few
> WMs (with ratpoison) to stray from the "many floating,
> overlapping windows" paradigm.
Fair enough. :)
-ryan
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