Configuring ratpoison

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I got alt-f1 working with strychnine and ratpoison on slint and didn't
install qemu.


On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I installed Ratpoison along with the Strychnine and tried to follow the
> guidelines. While this seems to be a great offering, I seem to have
> issues with the ALT+F1 menu: it does not start the main menu. I removed
> the qemu.desktop from the /usr/share/applications, but still Orca does
> not announce the menu.
>
> Any hints on how else to proceed?
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 08:22  Linux for blind general discussion
> <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Thanks, I almost got that correct.  I'll remove the .ratpoisonrc file and
> > run the setup.sh script again.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >
> >> Right. It should go like this:
> >>
> >> Select your Ratpoison key. It comes up with a bunch of options. C- is
> >> control,
> >> M is either alt or shift
> >>
> >> Super_L is what I go for, left Super key
> >> Then if you got multiple browsers, text editors and so on it'll ask you
> >> which
> >> one, then it'll ask if you want Ratpoison to make sounds, how many
> >> workspaces,
> >> and if you want braille, then after that you'll have a .ratpoisonrc file
> >>
> >> Next, either back up your existing xinitrc somewhere safe, or do ./setup.sh
> >> -x
> >> to make a new .xinitrc with Ratpoison settings then do startx
> >>
> >> Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >> > I got ratpoison and strychnine installed and ran the setup.sh script in
> >> > strychnine.  The first screen of options I didn't understand so hit enter
> >> > on that screen without selecting anything.  If I had to guess, I'd guess
> >> > that was a language selection screen but english so far as I could tell
> >> > wasn't on that screen.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, 23 Jan 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi Brandt,
> >> >>
> >> >> I forwarded your question to my friend Storm Dragon on IRC and here his
> >> >> his
> >> >> answer:
> >> >> (16:24:20) storm: DidierSpaier:
> >> >> https://git.2mb.codes/~stormdragon2976/strychnine
> >> >> (16:25:09) storm: That's my script that creates a .ratpoisonrc. It's
> >> >> what I
> >> >> use
> >> >> every day for my X session.
> >> >>
> >> >> Cheers,
> >> >> Didier
> >> >> --
> >> >> Didier Spaier
> >> >> Slint maintainer
> >> >>
> >> >> Le 23/01/2022 ? 14:40, Linux for blind general discussion a ?crit :
> >> >>> Hi all.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I installed ratpoison on my Slint system, and don't have either
> >> >>> ~/.ratpoisonrc
> >> >>> or /etc/ratpoison.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Where can I get a good ratpoison config file? Does one of the Orca
> >> >>> users,
> >> >>> I'd
> >> >>> assume that would be most of us, have one on github or someware?
> >> >>>
> >> >>
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