ratpoisonrc

My ratpoison config + multi-desktop/multi-screen script rpms

Requirements

The following utilities packages are used by rpms:

• awk
• busybox (for busybox ash. Can be used for sed, awk, tr and grep as well; but not as well tested)
• dmenu
• perl (TODO: try to get rid of this dependency)
• realpath
• sed
• tr
• grep

rpms requires /bin/ash to be a symlink to busybox with support for the ash shell built in. ash was chosen over bash for rpms because it allows some degree of bashisms (in particular 'set -o pipefail'), while being faster than bash overall.

The following utilities are used by ratpoisonrc:

• amixer
• wmname (used to trick some programs behaving badly under non-reparenting WM:s)
• transset (used to make xterms transparent + convenient keybind)
• xterm (TODO: make configurable)
• xrandr (optional, used by the screen rotation commands)
• compton (optional) (TODO: make configurable)
• xsel
• mpv + youtube-dl (C-t y t)
• physlock
• sed
• grep (requires support for 'grep -E', extended regexp)

Install

Clone to $HOME/.config/ratpoison:

git clone https://github.com/xantoz/ratpoisonrc $HOME/.config/ratpoison

Source the config file from $HOME/.ratpoisonrc:

echo "source $HOME/.config/ratpoison/ratpoisonrc" > .ratpoisonrc

To add some optional feature:

echo "source $HOME/.config/ratpoison/volumerc" >> .ratpoisonrc