Ratpoison/'manual' tiling window managers

nice blog post faggot, if you're gonna be a retarded tiling WM hipster use i3/awesome/sway

i3 seemed good, I'm just too lazy/retarded to learn a new setup. I've been looking for something with a similar workflow (i.e. like screen/tmux) to ratpoison and I'm not sure i3 fits the bill.

StumpWM looked very similar to Ratpoison but I'm not sure how supported it is.

I just wrote my own shitty Window Manager.
Although it was under Windows.
I wrote it in Autohotkey to boot!
Triple fail.

But it works better than fannying around with fucking window positions, and dealing with shitty windows that have cascade-by-default set rather than saving position.
I slapped it under a bunch of hotkeys.
Altgr + [left/right: win, shift, ctrl] + \
Shifts do horizontal tiling.
Win does vertical tiling.
Ctrls do special positions, left usually being some specific position on the "left" side of the screen, and the right being a "sidebar" window.
Just doing it altgr+\ does fullscreen. (sans the sidebar coords if sidebar is open)
It bugged out sometimes, but I never bothered fixing it since it worked 99% of the time.
They aren't so much bugs, more annoyances.
Like issues with holding down altgr and switching the middle key.
Might rewrite it one day in a not-shitty language. AHK is fucking terrible.

The sidebar was usually for whenever I was doing projects that required working with a bunch of files and tools open at once but they never took up much visual space.
So I wrote some simple positions for these tools in a virtual sidebar.
Usually either a help file, a image browser, a video and such.
I usually remove the chrome of a sidebar window to make it even roomier for content.
Only like 16~px, but still!
These positions were very manual, however. Not automated.
I was considering making them automated stacking. Never cared to write it.

>>60630777
I wish I was autistic enough for ratpoison

>>60630777
Never used non-mainstream desktop environment (mostly Plasma/Xfce), let alone window manager.

However, yesterday I installed xmonad. Having a blast so far.

>>60633773
please tell me more
I've been a DE user my entire life because moving the windows around and resizing them was such a hassle with i3
is xmonad really magickal and does this automatically like they say?

>>60633948
Yup, it's pretty great. However, xmonad only supports Xterm, so
some initial customization is necessary for maximum comfiness.
It's easy to install too. For now I'm testing the setup on X201 and small screen beats the purpose a bit, but later I will try with 21:9 3.5K monitor.

>>60634072
that shouldn't be true, any terminal is a x application like anything else.
I'm interested in the automatic window management, how is it?

>>60630777
>been using ratpoison since 2009
mind sharing your config?

Ratpoison masterrace, with dmenu to launch programs is GOAT

my simple .ratpoisonrc here

bind e exec gjots2
bind E exec xterm -e vim

bind y exec iceweasel
# highlight an url in a window and the url is opened in a new tab
bind Y exec iceweasel -new-tab `$RATPOISON -c getsel`

bind o exec xterm -e mocp
bind O exec xterm -e aumix

bind d exec spacefm
bind D exec xterm -e ranger

bind g exec liferea
bind G exec xterm -e newsbeuter

bind h exec xterm -e irssi
bind H exec xterm -e mutt

bind j exec lyx
bind J exec calibre

bind z exec ~/jd2/JDownloader2
bind Z exec keepassx

# expose switch window
bind comma exec ~/bin/expose.pl

#as colon invoke ratpoison commands, semicolon invoke shell commands
bind semicolon exec

#no startup message announcing what the prefix key is
startup_message off

#change font, color and position for messages
set font "Fixed-11"
set fgcolor gray
set bgcolor black
set bargravity c

#normal cursor
exec xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr

#to fix java swing, install wmname (suckless)
exec wmname LG3D

#multiple workspaces (from F1 to F4)
exec rpws init 4 -k

#get rid of the one pixel border around windows
set border 0

and never thought to try i3wm ?