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 obviously a very sub-optimal solution. Does a better one exist?

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 the Win key to the right and Fn to the left while the other has them swapped. How to use the Win key on the second laptop instead of Fn?

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 same key, ц is typed and that has been bound in ~/.ratpoisonrc: # ~/.ratpoisonrc # Minimal config file for ratpoison. # Meta key - Windows key. # Press before command, not simultaneously. # Basic commands: # s, S - split screen into "frames" # - within a frame, cycle the "windows" open inside it # - next frame # c - create a terminal window in the current frame # r - resize this frame # o - only frame - destroy all other frames # R - remove current frame # Q - quit ratpoison escape Super_L unbind Q bind Q quit bind o only set startupmessage 0 bind Я quit bing о only bind к kill bind ц exec xterm bind с split bind С hsplit

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 ratpoison. So for a couple minutes I need another window manager that does not automatically resize all windows. Fortunately ratpoison has the ability to run another window manager and sleep until the other window manager is done. Exactly what I need, except that the window managers I have tried this with make sure that they cleanup on exit (close windows, restart the x server, etc.) and this interferes with my plans. What is a simple window manager that allows overlapping windows and exits cleanly? I would prefer one that is packaged for debian, but I am willing to compile. I have no other requirements including ease of use. Any suggestions?

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 + . However, I have more than 10 windows opened. How could I switch to the tenth window?

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](https://askubuntu.com/a/166407/19753) I have found is to execute synclient MaxTapTime=0 in the user's X session. I could accept this solution, but the problem is that this doesn't work for all users with their different preferred X "environment". The first user has logged in in the linux console, and run startx. X server for his session has occupied the 7th virtual linux console. He uses bare ratpoison. The second user has logged in, run startx. X server for his session has occupied the 8th virtual linux console. He uses WindowMaker. synclient MaxTapTime=0 has had an effect in the second user's X session, but has had no effect when executed in the first user's X session. So, can this setting be done system-wide, for the X server, perhaps in xorg.conf?

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?

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 (* means dealbreaker, others nice to have) Easiest way I guess would be to run Xfce4 as DE replacing the WM with Ratpoison. I have tried and failed getting this to work. Most suggestions mention the use of --replace as an argument to the WM of choice. However, Ratpoison does not come with that feature, at least not what I can find. ratpoison: unrecognized option '--replace' Another way would be to fulfill my requirements above by fitting various hacks into the WM, but that sounds like reinventing the wheel... And frankly I don't know if I'd be able to accomplish it. All hints to fulfill all or some items of my wishlist is +1.

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.

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 comes back to the foreground. However, starting an xterm and running %emacs bash tells me bash: fg: %emacs: no such job. How can I de-iconify emacs in ratpoison? 1. [similar problem within Gnome](https://superuser.com/questions/349943/how-to-awake-emacs-gui-after-pressing-ctrlz) 2. [bugreport](http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?42547) *(this post was heavily edited)*

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 shell script that creates ratmenu with window list. Using command next and previous is not an option because they switch windows only in current frame ...

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 key binding to get that right. bind p exec ???? python

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 Firefox (which is also Ctrl-t), or activating the menu in Debian's aptitude. In fact, it seems that even shortcuts with no apparent conflict are also affected. For instance, the Page Up/Down keys no longer scrolls, and Backspace can't bring me to the previous page in Firefox. I saw a sample .ratpoisonrc that changes the Ctrl-t key to "less" but what key is that on the keyboard?? Also, why do some other keys stop working (i.e. like Page Up Backspace, etc.)? Thanks.