Re: [RP] New user questions & suggestions

[J.R. Mauro]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Phil Endecott
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have just bought myself an ASUS Eee and I think that even those people who
> use a regular GUI system on a desktop machine will appreciate the benefits
> of ratpoison (and its ilk) on its small screen.  I have been spending a
> while setting it up to my tastes and I would like to ask a few questions and
> make some suggestions, if that's OK.
>
> 1. I don't seem to be able to get the "source" command to work from inside
> my .ratpoisonrc file.  Am I doing something wrong?  Where do error messages
> during .ratpoisonrc parsing go?
>
> 2. It would be great if the documentation either listed the default
> keybinding for each command in the command index, or listed the command name
> for each keybinding in the default key bindings page.  Or alternatively if
> there were some way to get a running ratpoison to dump its current
> keybindings.
>

Try 'C-t ?' I think this dumps what you want.

> 3. I decided that rather than the C-t prefix I'd use one of the
> otherwise-useless extra modifier keys.  I chose the one to the right of the
> keyboard with a menu symbol on it.  I set this up by putting this in my
> .xmodmap:
>
> keycode 117 = Hyper_R
> add Mod3 = Hyper_R
>
> Then I had to replicate all of the existing root-keymap bindings in a new
> top-keymap with the H- modifier.  It would be been great if I could have
> dumped the existing keybindings, and piped them through sed or awk, to do
> this.  But doing it by hand was a good way to discover all the commands I
> suppose.  Anyway, pressing e.g. Hyper-0 seems a lot simpler than C-t 0,
> especially on this cramped keyboard.
>

I believe there's a simpler way to change C-t to something else. Look
through the
wiki site.

> On my desktop system I have one of the other modifier keys (the Logo key to
> the left of the spacebar) set up to launch terminals on various machines.
>  With shift it makes it a root terminal, and I use different colour schemes
> for the terminals to make them easy to recognise (it could be a bad mistake
> to run a command on the wrong machine!; I use reverse-video colour schemes
> for root).  So I have now set this up in ratpoison; it works well and it's a
> technique that I recommend:
>
> definekey km s-x exec x-terminal-emulator -bg lightblue ssh xylophone
> definekey km s-X exec x-terminal-emulator -fg white -bg blue ssh
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> 4. It took me some trial and error to work out that I should write s-X and
> not s-S-x.  The docs list S as the modifier for shift.
>
> 5. Say I have four terminals running in four frames.  If I want to "zoom in"
> to one of them I can "only" it.  But I don't see a way to "zoom out" again,
> i.e. I can't undo or otherwise reverse the "only" command.  Also, maybe I'd
> like to really zoom in (i.e. increase the font size).  I could imagine
> tiling the window with small terminals, and then zooming in so that the
> other terminals are still in the same relative positions but off the screen.
>  Does that make any sense to anyone?  Maybe it's not a ratpoison thing, but
> I think it could still be useful especially on small screens.
>

Look for my recent posting of the expose.pl in the archives (last month or the
month before). There might be commands in there to help you do what you want.

> 6. Totally off-topic: if anyone knows how to change the font size that
> Firefox uses for its menu bar and status bar, or better still how to get rid
> of the menu bar entirely, I'd love to hear from you!  All those wasted
> pixels.....
>

I would recommend installing the Vimperator plugin. Firefox will then never need
the rat, save for text selection.

>
> Thanks for reading,
>
> Phil.
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