ratpoison Cookbook

Installs the Ratpoison window manager for X11.

The default recipe of this cookbook will install Xvfb
to provide a X11 implementation for Ratpoison to run on.
If you already have a X11 server running, use the
windowmanager recipe that only installs and runs
Ratpoison.

Build

Requirements

packages

• yum-epel - to provide the yum repositories
• loco-xvfb - to provide a X11 implementation

Attributes

Usage

ratpoison::default

Include ratpoison in your node's run_list to have
Xvfb and Ratpoison installed and running.

{
  "name":"my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[ratpoison]"
  ]
}

ratpoison::windowmanager

If you have a X11 implementation running on
your node, include ratpoison::windowmanager in your node's
run_list to have Ratpoison installed and running.

{
  "name":"my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[ratpoison::windowmanager]"
  ]
}

Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Make your contribution
3. Make a pull request

License and Authors

Authors: Miguel Ferreira

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.