On Tuesday 31 July 2001 12:15 pm, Tigger-oN wrote:
> I've just recently 'found' Blackbox and total love it! So simple and fast
> and everything else you people already know.
>
> Even more recently joined this list :]
>
> > > Now please, no more arguing over the semantics, let's just find out
> > > what people want.
> >
> > Agreed.
>
> The first thing I wanted was ALT+TAB to switch between apps. OK, BBKeys can
> do this (I'm guessing)
Can do. I bind window cycling to the left Windows key and workspace shifting
to the right Windows & Menu keys - not using them for anything else :)
> but do I really need to have BBKeys running on the
> desktop? (i may have missed the 'hide BBKeys' option and I don't want it as
> an 'Inconify' app either)
Not sure what you mean here. bbkeys -i will 'hide' it - you'll find it on the
icons menu (middle button click on root window, last entry) but nowhere else.
No desktop realestate lost.
> The second thing was something way of identifying what 'style' I currently
> have selected on style menu listing.
cat ~/.blackboxrc | grep style
does it for me - this is minimalism after all ;-)
> And the third thing was some kind of run command option.
Have a look for bbrun. I have that bound to Alt-F2 as I got used to that
originally with KDE.
>
> Thats about it! I've been telling everyone about BB and can not understand
> why a window manager as great as this is not one of the default install on
> every OS.
:-)
Regards, Martin
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