I just checked out ratpoison. I'm not a keyboard shortcut kind of guy since I have trouble remembering them. I'm still learning the programs and where they are located in the filesystem so it would be a bitch for me and I'd be lost using this when I forgot crucial keyboard combinations. I also sometimes want to do something and can't remember what the program is named. I also "A lot of excuses" like to move multiple files highlighting and cut and paste into programs like if I want to convert a lot of video's to mp3 format and just highlighting and dragging into the program and clicking convert now is pretty nice. I do like that function of I3 of getting all the program windows on the screen so you don't have anything in the background and I'm pretty sure MX with open box on xfce might have a shortcut for that which I just haven't gotten around to looking up. Hell I'll check that out right after I post this comment.
Yeah, ratpoison is advanced. Try i3 for a bit and here is the cheat sheet. (i3wm.org) after a day you will be elite hacker in a movie fast at workflow management. Fun thing about *nix is you can switch out easy.
Hell I installed openbox and was totally lost so I'm far from using I3 still. I still try to use it once in a while and end up uninstalling it.
Yeah, you gotta print the cheat sheet out and tape it to your monitor. I got comfortable after around 4 hours, in a day I couldn't ever see myself going back to the mouse operated WMs.
that's a lot of shit to memorize. I got just a few down for a regular gui ctrl c ctrl v ctrl alt del alt tab alt space alt enter ctrl esc and that is it after years of using computers.
It isn't that bad really. A day or two and you have all you need to know in muscle memory. mod+enter=terminal, mod+v=vertical split, mod+h=horizontal split, mod+d=menu input (type the program you want to appear and it pops up)... etc etc. Like I said give it a try. It forces you to use the unix paradigm of using a desktop for application or workflow. After a week you are at a ninja hacker level of starting/killing/swapping programs. If you are on a 4k monitor you can fit 12 terminals evenly spaced on a screen by "mod+h, alt+enter" until the screen is full.
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