Re:gaim works for me, but loses ground from here (Score 1)

I think that project needs more sample configs or techniques for handling applications or rather what to expect.

Good point, maybe I should post some configs to my home page. A friend (who brought me to ratpoison and who I got fixed to CenterICQ ;) ) showed me CenterICQ is able to trigger external actions, which leads to ratpoison showing a message when CenterICQ receives an event, depending on my status.
I like to use my keyboard instead of the mouse (also I use opera as browser because of its advanced keyboard support, maybe there is an extension for ff also), but it certainly needed time to get used to this.