On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:56:56AM +0300, Peter Peltonen wrote:
> I have blackbox-0.60.0-2000mar31 running on my P90 machine with 48M of RAM.
>
> top tells me:
> --snip--
> 12937 root 5 0 26956 24M 7396 S 0 0.3 55.4 36:06 X
> --snip--
>
> and in my .blackboxrc reads:
> --snip--
> session.cacheMax: 50
> session.cacheLife: 5
> --snip--
>
> And my computer is being swapped heavily :) Are these values ok? Or is there a
> way to bring down the mem usage? Would updating to a newer version of Blackbox
> help?
>
By all means, get yours hands on 0.60.3. It contains a number of
alterations which should cut down on X's memory consumption,
especially if you configure it with --disable-styled-frames.
>
> Ps. I'm using "Sloppy focus" without "Autoraise". To bring a window on top of
> my screen I have to click on the top corner of the window (don't know what's
> it called in English.. the "upper corner" of the window which
> has the buttons to iconize and kill the windows and so on). I'd like to change
> this so, that I could click anywhere on the window to bring it on top. Is this
> possible?
>
Not without either switching to ClickToFocus or modifying the source.
Though it really wouldn't take much mucking around in Window.cc to
get it to work... only a few lines would need to be changed. [Hint:
look for lines containing XGrabButton.]
Jeff Raven
