On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Ciprian Popovici wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:59:12 -0400 (EDT) "Scott R. Godin"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > > The fact that blackbox allows an *arbitrary* command there is a
> > > rather large hole that *I*, for one, would rather not deal with.
> > 
> > Sean, he actually makes a good point here. Would it be safer to
> > specify the program to use for setting the background somewhere else,
> > and just have the style specify the /path/to/image to be used as the
> > background at this point?
> 
> I can't argue with the security issue. On the other hand, you can do so
> many nice things with that command, like change the background image as
> well as gtk and kde theme and so on upon changing the BB style. I'd like
> to keep that flexibility.
> 
> As I see it, the compromise would be to have the "background program"
> specified in the BB rc file and the background image path be passed as a
> parameter. This way I can modify the background program and use a bash
> script which will do whatever I want as well as change the background,
> while being safe from malicious style files.
> 
> Speaking of which, has there been any decision regarding the new BB
> resource directory layout? IIRC there was an idea about moving
> ~/.blackboxrc to ~/.blackbox/rc but that's about all I remember.

or ~/.blackbox/blackboxrc 
or ~/.blackbox/config

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