On Tuesday 12 November 2002 17:30, Andy Kriger wrote:
> just installed blackbox (switching rapidly as a Linux newbie from KDE to
> FVWM to Blackbox). i have some questions about configuring:
>
> * is it possible to keep a window off of the next/previous window list?
> (e.g. bbkeys shows up on that list, but i never want to switch to it, same
> for some other utils that i run)
>

soon but not right now

> * when i run an app from the cmd-line with &, i want it to stay in the
> background (even after it opens). when i run an app from the menu, i want
> it to come to the front. is it possible to fine-tune how windows come to
> the front (maybe even on an app-by-app basis)?
>

no, not really.  And this is particularly hard to accomplish.

> * is there a way to call init/exit methods on blackbox? (e.g. to run
> certain scripts before exiting, like the window saving script that i saw in
> the list archives)
>

again not directly.  However you could get sneaky (-:  The restart menu action 
runs some other program which takes over for blackbox.  If that program read 
the window state and then exited you would get the affect of exiting 
blackbox.

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