050124 Ciprian Popovici wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:00:07 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> however, i can't get the slit to appear: it doesn't seem to be present. > It only appears when you load something in it.
oh well, nothing told me that (smile)! perhaps it should be in the 'man'. >> Gentoo 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). > Thay may have had some points in regard to 0.65, although I may argue > with at least some. No excuse with 0.70 as far as I am concerned. it was one guy who tends to shoot off wildly when provoked & who had had the Commonbox items thrust on him. someone else seems to have adopted them, so we'll see what happens. at the moment, it's best to leave the dog to sleep undisturbed ... >> might i suggest a config option >> to prohibit windows from covering margins around the screen > There's already a standard in EWMH, describing 'struts'. > windows can reserve portions of the screen > so that other windows try not to cover them. yes, that's what Xfce4 uses. > Give the slit another try, it may get what you want + a bonus. yup, dunnit -- 'bbpager -w' -- & it works beautifully ! the only irritant was remembering to edit .blackboxrc outside X , but that applied to Xfce4 too; writing/not on exit should be an option. > The slit is very important IMO. > Too bad newer desktop environments ignore the power of dockapps > in favour of complicated panels with applets and whatnot. when i was forced by problems with the Xfce team to review my needs, i realised that all i want on my desktops is a pager & a hidden clock: i run a predictable set of apps, which i start at the beginning or as i need them during a typical day, & can run them from the menu; there are rarely > 2 apps on any of my 10 desktops, sometimes none; tabbed terminals -- eg Konsole -- make it even more efficient. desktop icons of any kind simply waste space, even a menu 'start' button: all i need is a bit of empty desktop to right/middle-click on. so Blackbox does everything i need. > Is bbconf still around? very much so: it's excellent for editing the menu or key-assignments. > I may grow frustrated enough one of these days > to put together a graphical Blackbox configurator, > with the possible downside that it would be written in PHP-GTK. well, if Bbconf has been abandoned, perhaps you could adopt it ? -- ========================,,============================================ 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
