— Command: set rudeness n

The rudeness variable lets you decide what windows pop-up automatically and when. This is often useful for those deep hack sessions when you absolutely can't be disturbed.

There are two kinds of windows: normal windows (like an xterm) and transient windows (generally pop-up dialog boxes). When a client program wants to display a new window it makes a requests to ratpoison. ratpoison then decides whether to grant the request and display the window or ignore it. A client program can also request that one of its windows be raised. You can customize ratpoison to either honour these requests (the default operation) or ignore them.

n is a number from 0 to 15. Each of the four bits determine which requests ratpoison grants.

Bit 0

Tells ratpoison to grant raise requests on transient windows

Bit 1

Tells ratpoison to grant raise requests on normal windows

Bit 2

Tells ratpoison to grant display requests on new transient windows

Bit 3

Tells ratpoison to grant display requests on new normal windows

For example, if you wanted only wanted to grant transient windows raise requests and display requests you would type `set rudeness 5'. If a request is not granted ratpoison will tell you about the request with a message like `Raise request from window 1 (emacs)'.

When called with no arguments, the current setting is returned.