Ratpoison
lastmod 2026-11-10created 2020-06-222 edits
ratpoison is a tiling window manager for the X Window System that, true to its name, is designed so that every operation is done from the keyboard alone without ever using the mouse (the "rat"). Modeled on the terminal multiplexer GNU Screen, it switches windows and splits the screen by pressing a prefix key (Ctrl-t by default) followed by a command key, and since it has no window decorations, icons, or bars at all, its resource usage is very low. It is configured through the .ratpoisonrc text file and can also be controlled from the command line with ratpoison -c.