On Mon, Nov19,01 11:21, Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
> Today at 2:00am, Chris VanHorn said:
> 
> > Hi Blackbox Gurus,
> >
> >     I have two quick questions.
> >
> >     1. Is there a better way than putting the call to xpmroot in my
> > xinitrc file to load up a background image?  Does Blackbox have somewhere
> > that you can list commands to automatically run on initialization.  I want
> > to also put bbkeys in there as well.
> 
> You can use the rootCommand: property in your blackbox style file.  Use a
> shellcommand that sets the background, e.g.
> 
> rootCommand: bsetbg ~/pictures/mybackground.jpg
> 
> When Blackbox starts up, it will run the command. See the Blackbox manual
> pages.
> 
> (bsetbg is a tool contained within the Blackbox distribution that
> automagically finds applications to set the root window background)
> 
> 
> >     2. Is there a way to set certain properties on windows like can be
> > done in fvwm.  Such as make it so my webbrowswer window cannot be moved.
> > Or xmms cannot be moved and will always be in the same place?
> 
> Currently not, because the main design goal of Blackbox has always been
> minimalism.  You could look at IceWM (www.icewm.org) that has very
> advanced window properties, while still being incredibly small and fast.
>

OR, you could check out the bbappconf program. Don't have a URL, sorry, but
a google search should find it.

DC
 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Wilbert
> 
> -- 
> Wilbert Berendsen (http://www.xs4all.nl/~wbsoft/)
> 
> "To build an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
> Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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