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[RP] new user


From: Chris Beggy
Subject: [RP] new user
Date: Thu Nov 29 20:46:03 2001

Thanks for ratpoison.  I'm using it on a Toshiba laptop,
gnu/linux slackware with XFree86 3.xx  X11R6.  I like that
ratpoison lets me get maximum use out of the nice, but small screen.

My goal is to go mouseless.  I think emacs centric users will go
for RP.

I've recently gone through a quick evaluation of lightweight
window managers:

Output of ls -l for compiled binaries:

     size    wm
-----------------------
      17232  aewm*
    1293351  blackbox*
     187976  fvwm2*
     119812  fvwm95*
      18968  heliwm*
      66496  larswm*
      23668  lwm*
      57819  ratpoison*
     127332  twm*
      29436  w9wm*
     165757  wm2*
     672256  wmx*

Output of size:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  14241     572     132   14945    3a61 aewm
 160897   26996     336  188229   2df45 blackbox
 178635    4456   12096  195187   2fa73 fvwm2
 112149    3024    2916  118089   1cd49 fvwm95
  16187     584     436   17207    4337 heliwm
  62936     736   11844   75516   126fc larswm
  20160     832     152   21144    5298 lwm
  33919    1216     448   35583    8aff ratpoison
 118911    5080   82484  206475   3268b twm
  24615    2304     348   27267    6a83 w9wm
  61977   13068     432   75477   126d5 wm2
  92111   14720     188  107019   1a20b wmx

I hope the 

  :bind c exec -c xterm 

workaround makes it into the source docs.  I wasted a little time
digging for that.  On the other hand, having only wm
config. setting is amazing!

Keep up the good work on the Docs.  They were informative and funny.

Thanks.

Chris



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