Ratpoison

Ratpoison is a tiling window manager modelled after screen. The main philosophy under ratpoison is to manage the windows without using a mouse (what the name reflects). Being written in C, it is extremely light-weight and fast.

Installation
Install :

Starting
You need to edit ~/.xinitrc and add there the following line:

Startup file
On startup ratpoison runs commands found in the file ~/.ratpoisonrc. This file contains key bindings and programs that need to be run with ratpoison.

Here's an example of ~/.ratpoisonrc

Usage
As ratpoison is modelled after screen, users accustomed to screen will easily manage to use it. Each command begins with a control-t (usually abbreviated C-t), and is followed by one other keystroke. The simplest way to get to know the commands is to press C-t ? This will open a help window containing the most common key bindings.

Most commonly used keys: