Hi Richard.

ratpoison is designed to be ran instead of KDE rather than inside
KDE. ratpoison is a window manager. Other window managers you may
have heard of include kwin from KDE, fluxbox, windowmaker, metacity,
enlightenment, openbox, blackbox, xfce, fvwm, and hundreds of others.

generally, the easiest way to run ratpoison is to create a ~/.xinitrc
file containing this:

#!/bin/sh
exec ratpoison

then if you log in from gdm or kdm (graphical login screen) you have to
pick the correct session which will launch your .xinitrc file. Generally
it's called 'default', or 'xsession' or something like that; it's usually
notable in the list of available sessions in the GUI because it's not
kde or gnome ;)

I have a web page describing my specific setup (with a .xinitrc
file that launches lots of clients in addition to ratpoison) at
http://www.desertsol.com/~kevin/ratpoison

the ratpoison web page is at ratpoison.sourceforge.net they have the
full documentation there along with a wiki

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:35:43PM -0700, Richard Whitney wrote:
> Kevin!
> 
> It was cool to meet you last night!
> I'm trying to invoke ratpoison from a terminal inside KDE as I can't seem to
> invoke it at login.  Do you know of a way?
> 
> R. Whitney
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