This article is about the computer program. For the chemical rodent killer, see
rat poison.
In Unix computing, ratpoison is a free window manager for the X Window System primarily written by Shawn Betts. Its user interface and much of its functionality are inspired by the GNU Screen terminal multiplexer. Its name comes from the fact that it lets the user manage windows without using the mouse (or "rat"[1]). Ratpoison is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Its intended successor is Stumpwm; ratpoison was growing increasingly large, and Betts decided to largely reimplement its functionality in Common Lisp.[2]
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- ^ SCWM, Pot and the GPLFrom: Craig Brozefsky - Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss - Date: 1999/06/27
- ^ "StumpWM grew out of the authors' frustration with writing ratpoison in C. Very quickly we realized we were building into ratpoison lispy-emacs style paradigms. We had a REPL hanging off 'C-t :', hooks, and a growing subset of Common Lisp in the implementation ... It was clear what we really wanted was a window manager written in Lisp from the ground up with lots of room for customizing and real-time hacking." "Background" from the Stumpwm wiki
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