Wednesday at 8:15pm, jim mumbled:
> Howdy folks,
>
> Does anyone else here follow alt.blackbox.planned.featurebloat?
>
> Well, I've come to accept that we'll soon have random on-the-fly theme
> changes and, of course, animated pixmap window decorations. Life
> would be awfully dull without them. And why settle for xearth when
> you can have a 3-D image generated from a real-time connection with
> the space shuttle?
hahahaah! Cool idea!
> So, I'm going on strike against window managers. Here's my .xinitrc file:
>
> xset m 4 2
> xsetroot -gray
> exec bbrun
> exit ()
its cool. setup some aliases for geometry and you're on! ;)
(bbrun has a shell? dunno)
About Cursor:
When i ran bb for the 1st time (0.28.x) i loved the small cursor arrow
(left_ptr). I did'nt figure out then how to change cursor myself, so with
other wms sometimes i was stuck with the big X cursor.
Some time ago someone suggested it is not the wm's job to change
cursor. It's a hassle to want another cursor as it is now.
Two ideas:
1. just remove blackbox's setting of the default cursor.
user has to use xsetroot for this from its .xinitrc. New users
however will possibly have some poking around before they find
this.
2. Make a .blackboxrc resource called *cursorName that defaults to
"left_ptr". When changed into "NONE" or "NULL" or "-" or whatever
Blackbox will not touch the cursor.
3. Do nothing and leave it as it is now. BEST option, actually.
;) ...horrible counting....
IMHO Blackbox should stay a `blackbox' (i.e. a simple single executable
that just does everything needed and nothing more or less. K.I.S.S.)
cheers,
wilbert
