On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Trieu Truong wrote:
> I'm likely treading on old ground here, but will ask at the risk. Are
> there any plans for a bbpanel tool? Blackbox's method of de-iconifying
> windows isn't all that pleasant. I'd love to be able to use something
> similar to Enlightenment's icon panel. Instead of having a window
> completely disappear when you minimize it, I'd like it to instead
> actually "iconify" itself into a blackbox panel on the desktop. Having
I agree. I would like a small window that showed my iconized windows.
> started my use of blackbox today, I find that it's the only thing this
> wm is missing. Are there any plans for such a tool?
In the meanwhile, I click on the Blackbox menu -> Workspaces menu and then
drag the Icons menu to the top right corner and it stays.
It does grow horizontally, so I patched blackbox:
--- Basemenu.cc Wed Jan 10 00:42:45 2001
+++ Basemenu.cc.orig Wed May 31 15:42:49 2000
@@ -312,7 +312,6 @@
ii += (menu.bevel_w * 2) + (menu.item_h * 2);
menu.item_w = ((menu.item_w < (unsigned int) ii) ? ii : menu.item_w);
- if (menu.item_w > 200) menu.item_w = 200; // jcr 23/feb/2000
}
if (menuitems->count()) {
> If not, I'll consider getting busy and learning C++ . . .
I'll be glad to test your code! Be sure to look at the the other bbtools
for ideas.
Jeremy C. Reed
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