thanx again to those who replied for the detailed advice. i've got the background preset using Bsetroot, a faster mouse speed via the menu lines offered, a couple of keys assigned for iconise & vertical-maximise & KDE libraries pre-started with 'kdeinit' in .xinitrc .
however, i can't get the slit to appear: it doesn't seem to be present. this might be something done by Gentoo, whose developers were complaining that Blackbox was ancient, unmaintained & prone to multiple bugs (i've tried to educate them & they seem to have backed off for now). i can live without the slit, but might i suggest a new feature ? a config option to prohibit windows from covering margins around the screen, which would allow me to define a 35 pixel margin down the left edge. in the course of my fine-tuning i've found several apparent bugs: (1) Blackbox crashes when in ~/.blackboxrc i make session.screen0.slit.onTop: True it says it can't find an Aqui theme, but i'm using Almost-X ; (2) in Bbconf, 'Alt-key' doesn't work for key assignments; (3) 'apply' in Bbconf doesn't actually apply till Bbconf exits; (4) when i start Bbpager from the desktop menu, it goes where i want it, ie the bottom left corner as defined in ~/.bbtools/bbpager.bb , but when i use 'restart' in the menu, the pager starts at top left. HTH -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html
