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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I am telnetted here now in an rxvt using ratpoison.  THere is NO CURSOR!  
(drat it).  I should probably have put exec rxvt not just rxvt in my
script for x-terminal-emulator. Text is a very pale pink on black as
default.

The text where the cursor should be is white, which does not show up well 
against pale pink.

 C-t,c to make a new console, C-t,n (n = number of the console) to
switch. I typed C-t,s to split the screen horizonatlly and then switched
back and forth between top and bottom screens.


No xinit needed:
/usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa -screen 800x600x15 &rxvt -e ratpoison  

this gives an rxvt without a prompt.
To get a prompt, type C-t,c to create a console and then use any programs 
you like.  There is also a menu which may be included in this package, and 
lotsof documentation and examples (about 200K total files) > You can try 
it yourself:  

> http://www.iamjlamb.com/~keesan/ratpoison-100-deb.tgz
> 
> 53K executable and some documentation and examples
> 
> I did not read the documentation but when it told me it could not find 
> x-terminal-emulator and therefore could not make me an xterminal emulator, 
> I made a script called x-terminal-emulator in /usr/sbin with the one line 
> rxvt
> (no /bin/sh needed) 


exec rxvt might work better

> and now I can make rxvt's  (Ctrl-t, c)
> C-t,s   horizontal split screen
> C-t,S  vertial split screen
> C-t,?  help screen
> 
> I replaced the contents of .xinitrc with
> ratpoison &rxvt
> 
> and I was then able to type 
> xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa -screen 800x600x15
> (I made an alias for this and a few other resolutions and color depths)
> which put me into an rxvt where I could type Opera.
> Opera complained about locales (Xvesa does not support that)
> and then something about not liking the Window but it did load.
> 
> I could install xinit (10K from xbin) but xinit requires not only the
> dependencies needed by Opera (libSM, libICE,libXext) but also libXmu
> (343K) and libXt (110K) I am trying to find some way to manage without
> xinit and just type ratpoison and rxvt on the command line -- any ideas?
> 
> Ratpoison is a small window manager which does not require a mouse and 
> does everything with keystrokes, like the console program 'screen'.
> I have not really tried it out yet so don't know if it will let me switch 
> focus with Alt-Tab while in Opera.  
> 
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