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ratpoison
ratpoison with a number of applications open
Developer(s)
Shawn Betts
Initial release
December 4, 2000; 23 years ago (2000-12-04)[1]
Stable release
1.4.9[2]
/ 4 April 2017
Repository
git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/ratpoison.git
Written in
C
Type
Window manager
License
GPL-2.0-or-later
Website
www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
ratpoison is a tiling window manager for the X Window System primarily developed by Shawn Betts. The user interface and much of their functionality are inspired by the GNU Screen terminal multiplexer.[3] While ratpoison is written in C, Betts' StumpWM re-implements a similar window manager in Common Lisp.
^Earliest known release
^Jeremie Courreges-Anglas (4 April 2017). "ratpoison-1.4.9 has been released". Retrieved 12 November 2020.
^Covey, Jeff (12 October 2002). "The Antidesktop". Freecode. Archived from the original on 30 January 2016..
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radically different controls (such as a tiling window manager, like wmii or Ratpoison). Some interfaces such as Sugar or ChromeOS eschew the desktop metaphor...
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Global Information
/ 4 April 2017