Exactly. Ratpoison is the closest thing you can do to run without
a window manager while still running a window manager. It doesn't draw
any decorations on the screen. All it does is manage the focus of any
applications. I tried hard to run without a WM, but mplayer focus killed
me. I've been ratpoisoning for 18 months now with a raw X startup script
similar to what you mentioned.... although I may try to modify the
implementation to use init to respawn. Been thinking about that for
awhile.
-Cory
have you tried the "-fstype" in mplayer? it should be able to fix any focus
issues with whatever WM you use.
Steve
I haven't, but it's something I wasn't aware of... good thing to
remember in my "bag-o-tricks." I actually have another good reason for
ratpoison... no monitor (only NTSC television) on the local computer. If
I need to fix something, I need a terminal. Console mode doesn't work
(only 480i, not VGA works on the NTSC TV).... so, I use ratpoison to fire
up an xterm.
... and YES, with a decent tvout, a 80x24 xterm is quite readable
on a TV.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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