[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Lighter window managers



On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:42:29 -0500
Lance Simmons <lance@lsimmons.net> wrote:

>  Thumbs up for ratpoison.  There's no way to interact with it using
>  your mouse, so you have no choice but to learn the keyboard commands.
>  It doesn't take long to get used to it, and then you navigate as fast
>  as you can type.  I switched from ion this past week, and don't see
>  myself ever going back.  Add keylaunch, and you can do everything you
>  do with any of the other, mouse-friendly wm's, except you do it one
>  keystroke at a time.

How does it handle programs like the gimp, which has multiple
resizable windows? In ion I get a screen-sized progress bar.



Reply to: