Niko Gerhard wrote:
>
> Hi Maurits
>
> actually it is not as hard as you might think it is.
> Firstly, as far as I know you should find a precompiled
> rpm of BlackBox on your RedHat CD.
> If you can't find it, or simply prefer compiling from source
> because the rpm is not quite up to date all you have to do is follow
> the nect steps :
>
> 1) go to the directory where you have download
> blackbox-version-number.tar.gz
> i.e. ( as root ):
> # cd /home/myusername
> 2)
> unpack the archiv:
> # tar xvzf blackbox-xxx.tar.gz
> 3)
> change into the unpacked new directory with the blackbox source tree:
> # cd /home/myusername/blackbox-xxx
> 4)
> Run the configure script:
> # ./configure
> 5)
> then compile it
> # make
> 6)
> install the binaries to their location:
> # make install ( this will automatically create a directory called
> blackbox-xxx
> in /usr/local, and copy all blackbox files into it. Executable files
> will go into
> /usr/local/bin which is in your path. )
> 7)
> Now you create a file in your homedirectory called .xsession.
> If it already exists move it to .xsession.old
> # touch .xsession
> 8)
> open it with yout favourite editor and write a single line into it:
> exec blackbox
> 9)
> now login as a user and type
> $ startx
>
> That should be it if you start up your system in runlevel 3.
>
> Email me if that doesn't work for you.
>
> Niko
>
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Wikoff wrote:
>
> you should create a file in your home directory called .Xclients it should
> include:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/local/bin/blackbox
>
> make this executable with chmod +x .Xclients. log out and type startx you
> could also put this in your .xsession file.
> you didn't have to make the directory /usr/local/share/Blackbox you could
> have untared blackbox in /usr/local/src and it would have built the
> directory /usr/local/share/Blackbox and installed the exec. blackbox in
> /usr/local/bin.
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"A. van Werven" wrote:
>
> A. Maurits de Wolff:
>
> > [wlff@XXX Blackbox]$ cd blackbox-0.51.3.1
> [snip]
> > 'exec /user/local/share/Blackbox/blackbox-0.51.3.1',
>
> I think it should be
> exec /usr/local/share/Blackbox/blackbox-0.51.3.1/src/blackbox
>
> Also, if you did a make install, you might check out what
> `which blackbox` tells you.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Alphons
ABSOLUTELY COOL !!! It is indeed such a 'minimal' desktop. I read that
on the ppc mailing list some time ago.
Starting gimp for example with its funny little creatures makes you feel
you are watching an episode of sesamstreet. Blackbox is far out!
I thank all three of you wholeheartedly for answering. At first only
Wikoff's way worked, because of the 'chmod' part. I was under the
impression that whatever a user is doing in his/her home dir. is
executable by default. In conjunction with 'umask', yes!
I found that out after (again) studying O'reilly and trying out
subsequent changes to the same file.
Now, on my stand alone computer with three users each of them uses a
different way of starting up blackbox by default! On with configuration.
Bye (for now)
A. Maurits de Wolff
Amsterdam>Holland>EU
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
