Much snippage ensues...
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 03:10:21PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
> I'm new here.
Hi! :)
> After a long time building my linux from scratch
Brave man.
> I found blackbox and is my favorite one. The only problem I have with it
> is that I'm used to the M$ windows toolbar (which I think is a very nice
> feature).
Glad to hear it. Sorry you need such a big crutch. ;)
> here is some of my questions.
>
> 0. how do you work with your windows I'm using the "sloppy with
> autorise" and "cascade placement" that seems to speedup a little the
> change of windows. but I still forget about some xterm (or small window)
> behind all my netscape window
> Netscape don't work well with "cascade placement"
You can middle-click on the desktop, which brings up a list of all
desktops and a list of iconified applications. You can also take this
menu and tear it off (grab the menu's title, drag it somewhere else on
the screen), and that will make it semi-persistent. This is far from
optimal, but it seems to work for most of us. Opinions are like
armpits, though, everyone has a couple of them, and they all stink.
> 1. can I have something like the m$windows toolbar with all the
> iconified and open windows in there?
> Ok I know about Gnome and KDE gnome they eat all my memory I'm on a
> pII300 64mb ram no swap yet he he he... and I didn't install KDE for a
> long time to see how it is now. what do you think about installing KDE
> just to have that toolbar thing?
> I'm also thinking of Icewm
You'd probably like KPanel, but it doesn't work with bb 0.6x.x, only
0.5x.x. You can integrate bb as KDE's window manager, which works
pretty well (Dan Williams has posted an excellent set of documents
concerning this procedure, http://kbb.draknor.net/, IIRC).
> 2. If not can I set up with bbkeys so I can use a key to the icons and
> workspace menu?
> so I can open the menu anywhere and I don't have to move the mouse to a
> empty space.
> that can speed up my work a little :o)
Not yet. I've heard other people grumble about this as well, so maybe
somebody will write a patch to do this.
> 3. I'm having trouble with Mouse on XFree is fast and slow at the same
> time. I can't get used to it. how do you set your mice? I'm using "xset
> m 5 2"
That's odd. I used to have kcontrol handle my mouse speed (see Dan
Williams' site concerning this), but since I've removed all traces of
KDE from my system, I use a tool called GXSet
(http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/07/11/931676263.html), which depends
on glib/GTK+ to compile. Once the .xset.sh script is to your taste,
though, you may merrily go about removing gxset :).
Don't forget to pop into #blackbox on irc.openprojects.net for real-time
help :).
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