Configuring ratpoison

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Curiously Strychnine for me, doesn't seem to like Mint however, at least 
in my test setup. Arch works perfectly well after going through my 
setting things up routine however

Alt F1 works fine here even if I comment out the other menus

Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> 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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