Re: A simple bar for Ratpoison

Hi again,

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:21:02PM -0300, Daniel Maturana wrote:
> I'm a long-time user of ratpoison but I've always missed some sort of panel
> or bar to see the open windows. So I scratched my itch and wrote one. It's
> pretty simple and somewhat crude, but I've been using it for some months now
> and I find it useful. The code is hosted at
> 
> http://github.com/dimatura/rpbar

On that page, you write:

> The 'default' way to switch windows in Ratpoison is to press C-t-w
> to get the window list, find the number of the window you want to
> switch to (let's say it's 2), and press C-t-2 to switch. rpbar is a
> simple taskbar that gives a permanent display of the windows in the
> current group in order to make the first C-t-w unnecesary.

I wrote a dynamic window list based on ratmenu as solution/workaround
for that issue:

http://github.com/xtaran/ratpoison-desktop/blob/master/bin/ratpoison-interactive-window-list.pl

I bound it to <C-t> <w> (and the original static window list to <C-t>
<W>) so after having pressed <C-t> <w> I just have to choose the
window I want to switch to with the cursor keys, press enter et
voila... :-)

It even can list and switch between window groups with the option "-g"
(bound to <C-t> <g> in my case) since recently.

Nevertheless, I think rpbar is a neat add-on for ratpoison. I'll
probably send in some patches soon for minor issues I found. :-)

		Kind regards, Axel
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