From: Stuart Henderson (stuspacehopper.org)
Date: Tue Feb 28 2006 - 16:59:18 CST

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On 2006/02/28 15:59, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > If it's practical for you, you might try using ratpoison under X. It's
> > a lightweight window manager inspired by screen, with the added
> > benefit of doing side-by-side split screen.
>
> I've seen several mentions of ratpoison and X. I'm not running X and
> didn't plan to. How much X is required to run `Ratpoison'. I do want
> a screen with much finer resolution that the stock console setup. It
> is absolutely huge and I want more on the screen.

X is smaller than comp39.tgz, if that's any basis for decisions.

I used to be reluctant to install X, but needing the font libraries
for recent GD, and owning a Zaurus (which doesn't have the fastest
text-mode screen updates in the world) I've got it on a couple of
boxes now.

> How do I get a dependancy list of ratpoison?

That's a good question imo. I thought pkg_info -r would do this,
is it a mistake that it looks for +REQUIRE rather than +REQUIRING?
Generally it can pull these right from your local mirror listed
in $PKG_PATH.

The fallback is to examine the port Makefiles.

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