On Friday 03 November 2000 19:05, Jon Pennington wrote:
> Speaking of desktops and such, when can we expect to see more
> integration and perhaps even a HOWTO regarding the replacement of KWM
> with Blackbox 0.61.x? I have a bunch of KDE apps installed, but I miss
> the desktop icons from KDE1/BB0.5x days. Will Dan Williams' kbb patches
> make it into the source tree so that we can have KDE docking
> applications nestled safely in Slit? Will we see the ability to use
> KPanel on our desktops without fear of X crashing?
Hey Jon,
A couple of comments...
I am with you on missing the desktop icon support for KDE1. Using KDE2's
kdesktop (which provides icons and screensaver support) with Blackbox will
take some work to achieve, and probably would increase the size of BB quite a
bit. Some people have mentioned using the following line in your .xinitrc
file to provide support:
kdeinit +kdesktop --x-root
With this, the kdesktop will trap all mouse clicks on the root window. This
means you won't be able to use any of BB's menus.
There is work underway to add support for the new NETWM spec to Blackbox.
This will provide workspace, window hint, etc. support. Brad actually wrote
the code for the new WM spec in KWin, and (by some strange coincidence...)
should fit into BB's way of doing things relatively easily.
What kind of problems have you been having with kpanel? I don't use it
myself, but am curious...
Dan
