Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by 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.

1 comments

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.

> 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.