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Emacs is my new window manager

https://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html
38•gpi•2d ago

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dieulot•1h ago
(2015) https://web.archive.org/web/20150115000000*/https://www.howa...
omnicognate•1h ago
Thanks to EXWM (not mentioned here), emacs has been my literal X window manager for several years. I installed it as a lark, thinking there's no way this will work properly, and just never stopped using it. It's brilliant.
symfrog•27m ago
EXWM is great, having the same flow to manage X applications as for emacs buffers is a huge benefit. My only concern is if X11 will be maintained sufficiently into the future to keep using it, currently there is no Wayland support in EXWM.
rsync•42m ago
Hmm ... I used ratpoison 25 years ago ... is it current/maintained ?

Is there a live release/support/discussion ecosystem for ratpoison in 2025 ?

cess11•30m ago
It was released 25 years and four days ago, and is still around. Simple enough to still work I'd bet, though the last official release was in 2017 or so.

https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ratpoison

I used it for a while back then, before switching to IceWM because it was more fun to configure. Prepared me well for a much later move to i3.

moirre•12m ago
A quick google search reveals a lot of (4 years old) youtube videos about it. And although not very meaningful, it's archwiki page was updated a lot in the past 4 years, which means there are still people visiting that page and potentially using it. I've also seen some recent ratpoison rices on the internet.

For support, I'm sure the users in the past has generated enough forum threads for you.

patrick4urcloud•40m ago
you can do the same with https://omarchy.org/
batrat•35m ago
Me: Open browser full screen, vscode selfhosted, termix, tacticalrmm/guacamole. Nowadays I only need a browser.

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152•ustad•4d ago•19 comments

Emacs is my new window manager

https://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html
40•gpi•2d ago•8 comments

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