050501 Ciprian Popovici wrote: > On Sun, 1 May 2005 01:13:31 -0400 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> i've just updated to 0.70 & have a few problems: >> (1) the background color appears correctly as green, >> then almost immediately changes to slate grey; > Where do you set the green? I hope it's not in your ~/.xinitrc.
yes, it was (it worked for 0.65 ). i commented that line ... > The background cmd is overwritten by the rootCommand in the loaded style, > which in turn is superseded by the session.rootCommand directive > in your Blackbox rc file. ... but i don't see anything called 'session.rootCommand' in 'man blackbox'. i tried -- without success -- each of session.rootCommand: bsetroot -solid yellowgreen session.rootCommand: yellowgreen it works to set the background by hand from the configure line in the menu, but it isn't saved when i restart Blackbox. >> (2) following a previous thread, i downloaded the CVS version of Bbpager, >> but it refuses to appear vertically >> & i can't change workspace by clicking; > Frankly, I gave up on bbpager from CVS, > it seems to behave rather strangely in many situations related to 0.70 . Gentoo's bbpager-0.3.1 refuses to start with Blackbox 0.70 (this was described in someone else's query, to which you replied). does that mean there's no usable workspace pager for 0.70 ? (!) if so, that's a show-stopper for me. >> (3) Bbkeys doesn't seem to be working, >> so the only way to change workspace is via the mouse wheel, >> which moves opposite to what one would expect; > You also need bbkeys from CVS, or the newly released 0.9.x version. along with 0.70 , i also installed Gentoo's bbkeys-0.9.0 . as i see on closer inspection, the format of ~/.bbkeysrc has changed, so it's now working correctly. this seems a definite improvement. > You could also use the toolbar for navigating workspaces. i have the toolbar hidden to save screen space, so that's not satisfactory. the vertical pager is ok, as horizontal screen space is to spare. > There's a patch on the tracker > which inverts the mouse wheel workspace change: > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1183577&group_id=40696&atid=428682 sorry, you've lost me: what is the "tracker" & how would i apply the patch ? the present direction is quite counter-intuitive: the wheel should scroll down workspaces as it does down a WWW document. surely at least, there needs to be a configure option. >> (4) at first, 'startx' crashed, as Blackbox expected a Fluxbox background: >> i've deleted a line from the default ~/.blackboxrc to get around this. > By "default" blackboxrc you probably mean a 0.65 rc? it was when i started 0.70 without changing ~/.blackboxrc : session.styleFile: /usr/share/commonbox/styles/AlmostX that's the line i deleted, after which Blackbox started. previously, the system said: blackbox: managing screen 0 using TrueColor visual 0x23, depth 24 /home/purslow/.fluxbox/backgrounds/AlmostX-0.5.jpg does not exist /home/purslow/.xinitrc : line 5 : 7744 Aborted blackbox thanx for your speedy response. i hope there are ways to solve the problems. -- ========================,,============================================ 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
