On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:56:16 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (1) how can i preset the background ? i use 'desktop menu -> > configure -> background colors' when i start up, but it is not > remembered.
Jeremy answered this one. On a side note, that "desktop menu" must be a Gentoo thing. Blackbox has a dynamic menu entry which expands into config options, but there are no direct style changes possible. > (2) can i get windows to respect the 35 pixel margin i use at the left, > where i have the pager & an empty piece of desktop to click on ? * Load the pager in the slit * From the Blackbox config menu, choose "full maximization" and turn it OFF (it's the one that Sascha suggested) * Now, applications will avoid covering the edge where the slit is. Using the slit positioning, you can control which edge it is. By auto-hiding the slit, you get a few reserved pixels. By keeping the slit fully visible you get a wider empty strip. Next is just a matter of controlling the thickness of the slit via the things loaded in it. bbpager has a configuration which allows you to control it completely. > (3) can i control mouse acceleration ? In addition to what Jeremy suggested, you can also put an xset command in your ~/.xinitrc. > (4) i suspect it is a promised feature not yet implemented, > but can i change the position & order of the titlebar buttons > (i prefer to have 'max' 'iconise' at left & 'close' on its own at right) > ? This has been a long standing issue on the feature list, but has never made it beyond patch level. There used to be a patch for 0.62.x but it doesn't work for 0.65. I've made a patch for 0.70 and it's in the tracker. Brad would know if he intends to add it to main. > (5) Open Office has an ugly dark-brown window frame. on KDE, > it has a much more attractive appearance & IIRC Xfce had something > between. can i do anything about it in BB ? You're going to have to provide some pictures. Why just OO? Don't all windows do the same thing? Do KDE or Xfce do something special to OO? > (6) can i include the KDE menu in the desktop menu ? The Blackbox menu is "static" ie. no dynamic entries except for the Blackbox config menu (which is internal) and style chooser entries. There was a dynamic menu entry patch posted on the list and IIRC also on the SF tracker a few weeks back. You would have to patch Blackbox (was it 0.65 or 0.70?), then find a command line conversion utility and put together a script which you then assign to that hacked dynamic entry. Or convert KDE menus to a static form and add them to the Blackbox menu by hand. You may find more information on the website: http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ The site is a wiki, so feel free to add questions wherever you need to. -- Ciprian Popovici -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html
