Well it helps if you let people know which OS you use. ====== I use fresh, clean FreeBSD, mostly cause I'm old =========
If you have CDs you can also find the package on th CDs under x11-wm FTP: NOTE: ALL CAPS MEANS YOU HAVE TO PUT SOMETHING SPECIFIC HERE LIKE ee OR vi PARENTHESIS ARE SUGGESTIONS BUT NOT ALWAYS CORRECT ftp ftp.freebsd.org (MIGHT BE SLOW, TRY ftp2) cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ARCH(i386)/packages-VERSION-TAG(release)/x11-wm lcd /tmp get blackbox-0.61.1.tgz bye su (password) pkg_add -v /tmp/blackbox-0.61.1.tgz IF IT APPEARED TO WORK rm /tmp/blackbox-0.61.1.tgz EDITOR /usr/home/USERNAME/.xinitrc # Should be vi of course :) comment out your current wm and add /usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox if you don't have anything in your .xinitrc try the following # Begin .xinitrc blackbox & xterm -n login # end .xinitrc If you don't know it is important that each program BUT THE LAST ONE has an & after it. this allows it to go into the background and return to the .xinitrc file. When xinit returns after processing it's rc file it exits, Bug? Feature? who cares, that's the way it works. Double check this if you think your X installation is not working. You won't get an error message because nothing went wrong as far as xinit could tell. IF YOU WANT TO BUILD WITH OPTIONS: su cd /usr/ports/x11-wm make (ADD ALL THE OPTIONS HERE) make install make clean You can also get the source tar ball and do it with the gnu. (That sounds wrong) using configure make make install The first method takes all of 3 minutes and that includes editing your .xinitrc. Compiling will take at least 15 minutes and doesn't always work, especially if you have been dinking with things you shouldn't have. It is a good thing to learn, but you might want to do it with something the size of a dock app first. I'll defer to Linux Gurus for their (probably mean <grin>) instructions --- Orkun Sag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi there, > > i tried to search for an documentation and a installations-how-to for > blackbox, > but i found NOTHING! :) > > at the official hompage, the links for the stuff point to themes.org but the > links are broken because the documents there not available. > > did somebody have an alternative ressource for my need? > > thanx for support ===== --> Brigham Young Senior Project Leader CAUSMIS Senior Technician, MRAM etching University of Idaho Office 208.885.5313 Plasma Lab 208.885.7934 Minerals Lab 208.885.5308 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
