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by 77pt77 330 days ago
> ratpoison

That's a really fringe window manager.

Not a desktop environment like the others.
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spauldo 330 days ago
Afterstep and Windowmaker were also just window managers (you can kinda argue Windowmaker with the whole GNUSTEP thing, but that never really took off).

I believe ratpoison is the granddaddy of today's tiling desktops, which have a decent following.

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77pt77 330 days ago
> I believe ratpoison is the granddaddy of today's tiling desktops

I know. I'm using i3 as I write, bit no desktop environment.

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spauldo 330 days ago
I was arguing against the "really fringe" part. I agree it's not a DE.

But I suppose it could go either way - ratpoison itself didn't have a very large user base, but it spawned a decent one if you count its successors.

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77pt77 329 days ago
> ratpoison itself didn't have a very large user base, but it spawned a decent one if you count its successors.

Agree. Ratpoison itself was barely usable.

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