On 17-Dec-2001 Will Macdonald wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using black box for years and love it. However on my current > system, Mandrake 8.1, X 4.1 I have run into a very serious problem. > > I tried installing a Style (bluesilver) from themes.org which used an > artwiz font, mint I think it is called. As soon as I started it my whole > computer froze. Nothing could wake it up. I even tried pinging it from > another PC and no response. Mouse was dead too. >
yay, another odd bug! (-: What versions of bb have you tried? > I came across a similar problem a few weeks ago when I tried to install > bbpager. I compiled and installed bbpager ok, but as soon as I typed > bbpager & everything stopped, completely. > > Is this something I have done ??? > Possibly, bbpager is pretty safe and until I touched the code bb was also perfectly sound and rarely hiccuped much less crashed. > I have no trouble when using the standard Styles that came with Mandrake. > > I just had a look in /usr/share/blackbox/styles and noticed the > owner/group was root/root on all the other styles. With the silverblue > style it is 1000/1000. Could this be the problem ?? > owner should not matter, bb simply reads the file it does not attempt to modify it.
