On Sun, 1 May 2005 17:31:13 -0400 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 050501 Ciprian Popovici wrote: > > 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 style, which in turn is superseded by the session.rootCommand directive 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.
That's strange, it doesn't work for me either, and I'm running one of the latest CVS. IIRC, this option made it into CVS. We'll have to ask Brad about it. > does that mean there's no usable workspace pager for 0.70 ? (!) > if so, that's a show-stopper for me. I don't know about pagers that load in the slit. That particular breed may indeed be hard to locate. But there are many pagers that work: gnome- panel's pager, fbpanel's pager, rox-pager, kpager. Look for "ewmh pager" or "netwm pager" on Google, FreshMeat or SourceForge and you should find many. > > 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. The tracker is part of the SourceForge services for the hosting of the Blackbox project. See the above page (note that the URL wrapped). There's a download link towards the end. Grab a source package for Blackbox, either CVS or 0.70 stable. Unpack, go under the main dir. Run this: patch -F100 -p1 < /path/to/patch/file See this for installing source: http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/BlackboxDocumentation/CompilingBlackbox > >> (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 Rather strange. I'll try to reproduce the missing background image issue. If my Blackbox doesn't crash it may mean it's been fixed and will surface in the next stable version. Just FYI, the style syntax and features have changed quite a bit from 0.65, and are not 100% compatible with Fluxbox styles anymore. Blackbox 0.70+ will try to import 0.65 and Fluxbox styles to some extent, with various degrees of success, but it doesn't pull it off perfectly sometimes. -- 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
