On Thursday 17 July 2003 18:18, Anarky wrote: > hi ... and best wishes to ALL blackbox users. A bit about me: I'm 21, > into 3d graphics/game programing ... recently given up DirectX just to > try to move to linux ... a process which i've been effectivelly doing > for the past couple of days :) I've just joined the list .. and am kind > of hoping for answers from the people who know best on 2 questions that > nobody else seems to know answers to: >
welcome to the fold, hope you enjoy your stay (-: > > 1) each time I loginto blackbox I do the following: open a console, type > "bbkeys -w&" and close the console ... isn't there a way to automate > this every time i log into blackbox (not other WMs) ? > depends on how you get into X. If you enter via a login manager (a GUI which asks for your password) you likely want to edit ~/.xsession. If you are using startx (from the command line) you want ~/.xinitrc. Here is mine: $ cat ~/.xinitrc wmmixer -w & wmx10 B & wmmemmon & bbpal -w -p snail & bbkeys & blackbox The key thing here is every item must go into the background except for the LAST one. That item controls when your X session exits. > 2) now this I know is a tought one .. but something I would REALLY like: > now my computer isn't exactly 2000+mHz ... and thus things are going ... > well .. not that fast ... so, loading different apps may sometimes take > awhile. So, the really annoying thing that happens is this: I go a free > workspace, I start an app (say Galleon, or Mandrake Control Center) .. > and then realize there might take a couple of seconds more before the > app loads .. so I figure why not check how the other stuffs I'm doing > are goingz .. and then, while I"m doing this the app finally finishes .. > and pops up exactly where I didn't want it. Is there any way I could > have the apps starting stay in their workspace? > unfortunately due to the design of X there is no way for this to work easily. The free desktop group (members of GNOME, KDE, others) are working on a proposal to support this. However, it will still require support from the application and the wm. I have read their proposal and it is not simple. I have talked about this at length on this list in the past so there is plenty of material in the archives. The executive summary is there is no mapping between window and process available to the window manager. This means there is no way for me to know that you asked for Galeon and hey, it just loaded let me place it where you wanted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
