On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 00:26, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> Peter Peltonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
> > There is no documentation or FAQ at http://blacboxwm.sourceforge.net. 
> 
> That should be changed, true.  Nonetheless,
> http://www.google.com/search?q=blackbox+faq leads right to the FAQ.

Yes, well I usually don't start searching the FAQ from Google if I am
browsing the homepage of the project :)


> Or, in other words, what made you think that ~/.blackbox/Styles would be
> the correct place?  The man-page mentions this directory only when it
> talks about things that go _wrong_.

Because that directory was there! I did not create it. At least now:
Maybe it is some ancient ruin from my previous Blackbox experiments...?
>From your words I take that it was not created by default by the new
Blackbox installation. 


> You did not seem to know what you wanted to begin with.  Or at least,
> you didn't clearly communicate what you wanted.  You were talking about
> a login-manager and .xinitrc, when in fact you wanted to know how to
> permanently set the background _after_ you were logged in.

Well, communication is sometimes a hard task to achieve. If one should
be able to run xclock from .xsession, why not bsetbg? I think my logic
was not that poor you made it to seem be... 

And that part of login problem is not yet solved: I do not know how to
automatically start apps at RH8 after I login into X. Only place that
works is /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Blackbox, but as that is shared by all
users it is not very convient. But I guess this is not a Blackbox
problem, but a RH problem.


> In the process, you learned about styles and how they set the
> background.  Now you could go on and learn how to use styles without
> root-access.  Hint:  look in your ~/.blackboxrc and see what the
> man-page says about it.

Ah, yes. I can specify the menu I use in my .blackboxrc. That is good. 

IMHO it would still be most simplest if one could just specify the name
of the background image in .blackboxrc.

Regards,
Peter


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