> > Second: Menu > By default Gnome used sawfish as the wm, and relied heavily > on the Panel (the toolbar/taskbar/whatever, that I see > people keep asking for in BB). Well, in trying to bring > over my old programs menu to the BB, I read somewhere in one > of these posts, that if you want the panel back, just launch > it....duh! So, I'm doing that with no problems, for now and > until I have succesfully recreated the menu. But I may keep > it until someone tells me how I can bring up the BB menu > with a key command. I like being able to hit "Ctlr+Esc" to > bring up the panel's menu, but would rather used BB's menu. > No biggie though, the panel is working just fine for now. >
there is no way to call the menu with a keybinding, sorry. > Third: Icons > Don't know if I forgot something, or if there is something > extra I need to install, but when I minimize my > applications, they go bye bye. I can't find them anymore, > anywhere. I have to right click and bring up the menu -> > goto "Workspace List" -> goto "Icons" and I see them listed > there. But shouldn't I see them on the desktop somewhere? > Blackbox was designed to be visually minimal. These means not showing icons. "iconify" really means "I do not want to see it right now". If this does not suit your usage habits, perhaps window shading could replace iconifying? > Fourth: the blackboxrc file > I am trying to rename the workspaces, and when I edit this > file, and log out and back in, my settings are gone. Some > settings will hold, just not for the workspaces. Any idea > why? > > I guess that is enough for now. I'm just getting started, > so expect to hear alot more questions from me ;-) > You have to log out of blackbox, edit the file, and log back in. When blackbox exits it writes out the current configuration to disk, overwriting your changes.
