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Remilia Scarlet

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  1. I'm doing a bit of an experiment today for shits and giggles. I'm trying out a different X11 window manager/desktop called Rat Poison. I've used it before, but never to any great extent until today.

    Basically, think of a GUI that doesn't need a mouse, is fast as hell, and gives you carpal tunnel. Sure, you can do all of this in Windows and practically any other X11 desktop out there, but Rat Poison caters specifically to a different sort of person and way of use. If I want to run a program, say Thunderbird, I'd type these commands: ctrl+t ! thunderbird

    Doing those keystrokes in that order brings up Thunderbird. Maybe I want an xterm Terminal (like the MS-DOS prompt for you non-Linux users)? ctrl+t ctrl+c

    How about a list of open windows? ctrl+t ctrl+w

    Switch to a different one? ctrl+t ctrl+p (and many other ways, including ctrl+[number])

    Enter in some sort of Rat Poison command myself (including key bindings): ctrl+t :

    So yeah, I'm going to be a rebel and not use my mouse at all today. My IMs today may be a bit slow because I never use sound here at work and I don't have a taskbar in Rat Poison. Or a desktop for that matter. And since I don't have a taskbar, I just ditched using Gaim for the time being and went to the text-only Naim client (http://site.n.ml.org/info/naim/).

    Link to the homepage (awesome screenshots, heh): http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/

    1. exp(x)

      exp(x)

      I'll stick with gnome 2. It may be slower than others, but I have a fast enough of a computer where it doesn't matter. I use iceWM on my laptop with vector linux, though, because it is a 350MHz PII.

    2. Remilia Scarlet

      Remilia Scarlet

      exp(x) said:

      I'll stick with gnome 2. It may be slower than others, but I have a fast enough of a computer where it doesn't matter. I use iceWM on my laptop with vector linux, though, because it is a 350MHz PII.

      Gnome's always my second choice (maybe third now that I'm using Rat Poison so easily...) for a desktop, with my first being XFCE.

      Gnome has a good feel to it, where it's less cluttered than KDE. I like KDE-based applications quite a bit, but not the desktop. With Gnome, it feels right.

      When it comes to XFCE though, I like it the most because there are no desktop icons (this can be changed), its menu thingy at the bottom is intuitive for me, and the whole thing is pretty fast. And it's built on GTK+, which I like and know better.

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