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Take a look at StumpWM. IIRC it's done by the author of ratpoison.

Bonus: If you're an Emacs user the interface/keyboard shortcuts should make you feel at home (or so I've heard).



Got into StumpWM about two months ago after living in tmux and emacsclient all day. Now I have a super minimalist desktop, all the key shortcuts I need (and mouse like I need, where as ratposion makes it a little too difficult), on the fly restart and command reload, Lisp, and oh my god so much flexibility.

Before that, I used XFCE. I have realized there is always another level of minimalism down from where you were before in Linux, until you hit the Linux console. But I love StumpWM. They might say it is not minimalist, but it is for me and it rocks my world.

I am going to hit submit and then hit a shortcut to open running term emulator and find my running mutt instance in tmux. Later full DE users.


I am overjoyed. Thank you :)

I've set a reminder to switch to StumpWM 2 days from now.

Emacs is something I've never tried though Lisp is amazing and that's reason enough to use it.

So many fun toys, so little time...




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