Suggestions for Ratpoison-friendly apps?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Well, you indicated you already have a text editor, and I would say 
leafpad is probably the lightest one available. The best file manager I 
am aware of would be caja, but you say you don't want any of the MATE 
stuff. It does pull in some MATE dependencies, but it's one of the 
lightest and most screen reader accessible file managers currently 
available. Caja does also have desktop functionality, but you don't have 
to use this unless you want it.


Some time back, some people had said they were successfully using a file 
manager called pcmanfm, and it is quite a bit smaller in size than caja, 
but it appears to be quite old, and the URL listed in package repositories

http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net

which redirects to

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM

indicates that it can't access the database, so I can't even get any 
information about it. I just installed it here and tried to run it, and 
I can't even get it to speak to me, so it looks like caja is your best 
bet, even though it takes up a bit more disk space and pulls in a bit of 
MATE along with it.

~Kyle