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On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 08:21:37PM +0300, Ciprian Popovici wrote
> 
> bbkeys is a separate program from Blackbox. You need to start it
> separately and then it will proceed to read its configuration.

  Thanks.  That was the problem.  I've installed bbkeys, and the defined
keys do work.  One more question; is there a way to have a key-combo
bring up the control menu (equivalant to mouse button 3 on root window)?

> Give us more details about your setup and we'll help you tweak
> it. You can put a lot of things in your .xinitrc, mine is about 100
> lines with all kinds of bells and whistles.

  Here's my ~/.xinitrc

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/bbkeys -i &
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm &
/usr/bin/firefox &
/usr/bin/gnome-panel &
exec /usr/bin/blackbox > ~/.blackbox.log 2>&1

  I'm in the middle of switching to a newer (1.8 ghz) linux machine.  My
philosophy is "I don't run desktops, I run applications".  On my older
450 mhz PIII (128 megs ram), GNOME desktop runs^H^H^H^H crawls painfully
slowly.  What I did was *INSTALL* GNOME and KDE but run FVWM.  This
allowed me to run apps like Gnumeric, GIMP, AbiWord, gnome-panel, KMail,
etc, without the resource-sucking bloat of the GNOME desktop.  Things
run reasonably fast.  FVWM is getting too complex for my tastes, which
is where Blackbox comes in.

  On the 1.8ghz machine I'm switching to CRUX linux ( http://crux.nu ).
It's uptodate and optimized (*EVERYTHING* is compiled -O2 -march=i686).
CRUX is actually quite simple, and init scripts are BSD-style.  This is
where I'm running Blackbox.  Together, CRUX and Blackbox run *FAST*.

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