On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, after playing in traffic, Jeff Raven yelped:
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:11:05AM -0500, ??t ??h wrote:
> > I am stumped. Every time I edit the session.Menu pointer in
> > /home/scott/.blackboxrc to a menu file other than the default
> > file /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu, I get a basic root
> > menu that has only xterm, restart, and exit and none of the
> > applications listed.
> >
> [snippity]
>
> Hmm. When you edited .blackboxrc, did you use
> session.menuFile: /home/scott/.blackbox/Menu
> or
> session.menuFile: ~/.blackbox/Menu
>
> The second form won't work as things stand in 0.61.1.
>
> If that's not the problem, check your X error logs and see
> what error message blackbox is generating. Where these are
> depend your distribution (looks like debian?) and how you
> run X... if you run it manually via startx, it's probably
> just logging to the initial console (Alt+Ctrl F1).
Here's a small patch that makes it possible to use the ~ alias. The only
semi-bug is that when BB rewrites the config file, it uses the expanded
version of the path.
--gile
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