On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 02:20:35PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just one question about the wheel mouse patch. I used this patch with blackbox > 0.61.1 and a logitech usb mouse. Blackbox would crash on me every once in a > while when I switched workspaces with the wheel mouse. One user said that it was > a problem with that patch and usb mice. Was that fixed in this patch? Thank you.
I think that whoever told you that was full of _____. All the patch does is catch button 4/5 events from the X server on teh root window. It is not a hack against the X mouse drivers or anything quite so crazy. However, if the patch *does* crash Blackbox, please follow the appropriate steps to get me a backgtrace, and I will certainly make the problem go away. I do not anticipate any such problems however. Blackbox has had crashing problems just in switching workspaces quickly, I think this is what the problem was. Only related to the wheel mouse cuz you can switch workspaces faster with it at a time. Hopefully these problems are gone in 0.62.1. If not, again, send the backtrace and they will be eliminated for you. > > Eric Carlsen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, xOr wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:14:35PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > > Okay, okay, so I'm not a _real_ *nix user, because I'm heavily mouse > > > dependent... I'll admit it. However, I find I'm much more productive with it, > > > and with a GUI, than without -- and if that weren't the case, what the heck > > > would I be doing using blackbox in the first place? :-) > > > > > > So, my question: When I used to use E, I enjoyed both the ability to drag > > > windows between desktops AND the ability to scroll between workspaces using > > > the wheelmouse. Admittedly, the desktop/workspace concept in blackbox is very > > > different, but I _would_ like to be able to scroll between workspaces using > > > the wheel on my mouse (and/or drag windows between them). > > > > > > I saw several patches on the bbtools site for such functionalities, but they > > > were for a previous version of blackbox, and I don't know if they'll work > > > with 0.62.1. > > > > > > (For that matter, the bbtools site (bbtools.thelinuxcommunity.org) and the > > > blackbox community site (blackbox.thelinuxcommunity.org) are hopelessly > > > out-of-date -- does anybody have plans to update them?) > > > > > > Are there patches for the current version? are these functionalities that > > > will be rolled into the main branch? > > > > That patch, among others (all against blackbox *0.62.1*) can be found at > > http://www.orodu.net/~xor/bb/ at the moment. > > > > I intend to do something more that this in the near future, as the > > stable version of blackbox is typically being neglected, and the current > > patch sites are horribly out of date. > > > > I may release a blackbox-0.62.1-fix series and a blackbox-0.62.1-x > > series for bugfixes against the current _stable_ version of blackbox, > > and for feature patches against it as well (since patches can conflict > > with eachother, and this way only one person has to spend the time > > sorting this stuff out). > > > > We shall see what the future holds for blackbox as yet. > > > > * NOTE! * > > It should be noted that the Xft patch on that site *does not work yet*. > > If anyone can make it go, please do! If not, don't bother downloading it > > yet. > > > > Also.. please do not be sending me emails asking what all these patches do. > > If you cannot read it and see, then try it out, or just don't worry > > about it yet, or ask someone who can read the patch and see. An HTML > > page of some sort may need to be constructed. Or perhaps these will all > > just go into blackbox.thelinuxcommunity.org, though that site seems to > > be a ghost town of late. Everything is in the air still. > > > > Further Note! > > I think a lot of people loved MrFab's titlebar button-rearranging patch > > for blackbox-0.61.1. I've ported this patch to 0.62.1, it is on the > > above url (http://www.orodu.net/~xor/bb/custom_titlebar.patch). > > Props to MrFab for the great idea and the previous work. > > > > xOr > > -- > > I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way. > > > xOr -- I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
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