Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of American Telephone & Telegraph employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson , Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna.... computing, ratpoison is a free
Free software
Free Software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and to prevent consumer-facing hardware... window manager
Window manager
A window manager is computer software that controls the placement and appearance of window within a windowing system in a graphical user interface.... for the X Window System
X Window System
The X Window System is a computing software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface for networked computers. It implements the X Window System protocols and architecture and provides windowing system on raster graphics Visual display units and manages Keyboard and pointing device control functions.... primarily written by Shawn Betts. Its user interface
User interface
The user interface is the aggregate of means by which people—the User s—Interaction with the system—a particular machine, device, computer program or other complex tools.... and much of its functionality are inspired by the GNU Screen
GNU Screen
GNU Screen is a Free software Computer terminal multiplexer developed by the GNU Project since at least 1995. It allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session.... terminal
Computer terminal
A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical computer hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system.... multiplexer. Its name comes from the fact that it lets the user manage window
Window (computing)
In computing, a window is a visual area, usually rectangular in shape, containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.... s without using the mouse (or "rat"). Ratpoison is free software
Free software
Free Software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and to prevent consumer-facing hardware... licensed under the GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft.... .
StumpWM is a tiling window manager for POSIX-compliant Unix-like operating systems running the X Window System. It started as a rewrite of the ratpoison window manager.... ; ratpoison was growing increasingly large
Software bloat
Software bloat, also known as bloatware or elephantware, is a term used in both a neutral and disparaging sense, to describe the tendency of newer computer programs to be larger, or to use larger amounts of system resources than necessary for the same or similar benefits from older versions to its users.... , and Betts decided to largely reimplement its functionality in Common Lisp
Common Lisp
Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in American National Standards Institute standard document Information Technology - Programming Language - Common Lisp, formerly X3.226-1994 .... .
Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of American Telephone & Telegraph employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson , Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna.... computing, ratpoison is a free
Free software
Free Software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and to prevent consumer-facing hardware... window manager
Window manager
A window manager is computer software that controls the placement and appearance of window within a windowing system in a graphical user interface.... for the X Window System
X Window System
The X Window System is a computing software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface for networked computers. It implements the X Window System protocols and architecture and provides windowing system on raster graphics Visual display units and manages Keyboard and pointing device control functions.... primarily written by Shawn Betts. Its user interface
User interface
The user interface is the aggregate of means by which people—the User s—Interaction with the system—a particular machine, device, computer program or other complex tools.... and much of its functionality are inspired by the GNU Screen
GNU Screen
GNU Screen is a Free software Computer terminal multiplexer developed by the GNU Project since at least 1995. It allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session.... terminal
Computer terminal
A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical computer hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system.... multiplexer. Its name comes from the fact that it lets the user manage window
Window (computing)
In computing, a window is a visual area, usually rectangular in shape, containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.... s without using the mouse (or "rat"). Ratpoison is free software
Free software
Free Software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and to prevent consumer-facing hardware... licensed under the GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft.... .
StumpWM is a tiling window manager for POSIX-compliant Unix-like operating systems running the X Window System. It started as a rewrite of the ratpoison window manager.... ; ratpoison was growing increasingly large
Software bloat
Software bloat, also known as bloatware or elephantware, is a term used in both a neutral and disparaging sense, to describe the tendency of newer computer programs to be larger, or to use larger amounts of system resources than necessary for the same or similar benefits from older versions to its users.... , and Betts decided to largely reimplement its functionality in Common Lisp
Common Lisp
Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in American National Standards Institute standard document Information Technology - Programming Language - Common Lisp, formerly X3.226-1994 .... .
StumpWM is a tiling window manager for POSIX-compliant Unix-like operating systems running the X Window System. It started as a rewrite of the ratpoison window manager....
