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Episode: 931
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Title: HPR0931: The ratpoison window manager
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0931/hpr0931.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 05:06:14
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Hi everyone, I've been a listener of Hacker Public Radio for a long time, but I never
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really had any thing to contribute or anything that I thought was worth contributing, but
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I was listening to some older episodes, and I came across an episode with Clotu, a few
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or sixty-four, and a few other hosts that were doing a desktop challenge, basically this
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which desktops for a week, and then they reported on their findings in the next episode.
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This sort of inspired me to venture out and try other desktops, but first I'll give you a
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little background. My name, I go by root outcast on free node, so I guess that's what I'll
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go by here as well. I am visually impaired, and I have enough vision to where I don't need to
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use a lot of accessibility features, such as text-to-speech for any of that, but I am always kind
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of interested in new ways of interacting with Linux with my applications and things that I
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use every day, and that's one of the cool things about Linux is all the customization options
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that you have. That's one of the reasons I really like it, but on to why I'm talking right
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now, I was listening to this episode, and Clotu was talking about his experience with
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Rat poison, and one thing I really liked about it was that you didn't use the mouse to interact
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with the windows on your desktop. It's basically a Thailand window manager, so you can use the
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keyboard to manipulate your desktop applications, which I thought was really cool, because I have
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the vision to where I don't really use a lot of accessibility features, but looking trying
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to track down where the mouse is on the screen does get rather annoying, so basically if I can avoid
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having to do that, it helps tremendously. Before this, at that point, I was using Fluxbox,
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and I really like Fluxbox, but again, the tracking down the mouse does get annoying, so I thought
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I'd give Rat poison a try. I've been using it for quite a while now, and I really like it. Basically, I found
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a tutorial for setting it up, and I'll actually put it in the show notes, but the tutorial
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basically goes over remapping your caps lock key to be your escape key, because the default escape key
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in Rat poison, I believe it's Control-T. Rat poison by default uses Emacs like key bindings,
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and this tutorial recommends remapping your caps lock key to be your escape key, and I never use caps lock
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anyway, so I figured why not. Then it goes into detail about basically setting up your keys
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to manipulate your environment to be more like Vim key bindings, so to split your windows,
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horizontally, it's in my case it would be caps lock J, and I won't go through and give all the
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commands in everything, because that's not really very exciting listening, but I just always found it
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interesting how different people use their desktops and how they work float from day to day,
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in my case, since switching to Rat poison, I've tried to get away from a lot of gooey applications and use more
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terminal-based things, for example, I don't really have a graphical file manager installed, I just use LS
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for looking through directories and things, and it's really helped me kind of appreciate the file system
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a little more, I tend to, it's easier for me to find things, but I hope this hasn't been
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too boring, I guess I'll see you on the free-no network.
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