I'll check the error log. I'm running Debian v2.2 on a 68k Mac 630 -- 40 MB
RAM -- and starting blackbox from xdm via .xsession script. My .blackboxrc
file is written in the absolute form as /home/scott/.blackboxrc
I have edited /home/scott/.blackbox/Menu -- first copied from the clean
/etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu file -- both as user and root, with the same
results. When my edited file failed -- everytime so far -- I delete the
/home/scott/.blackboxrc file and restart blackbox so that it generates a
clean copy of /home/scott/.blackboxrc, so that by default it refers backs to
/etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu and runs properly.
I have tried several naming schemes for my edited copy of
/home/scott/.blackbox/Menu -- like /home/scott/.blackbox/menu ,
/home/scott/.blackbox-menu , and /home/scott/blackbox/menu -- all with the
same result.
Here's the process I have been following: the Mac boots up Debian, then xdm,
then blackbox. I will exit blackbox via th root menu, going back to the user
prompt. At that point I would go Control-Alt-F1 and log in as user and edit
the /home/scott/.blackbox/Menu and edit the sesion.menuFile pointer in
/home/scott/.blackboxrc. Then I would go Control-F7 to the user prompt and
log back in. Blackbox will boot but with a very basic root menu and the tool
bar below.
Any thoughts about what I'm doing wrong? thanks! scott
> 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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obligated to click" -dingo
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