On Sun, 05 May 2002 13:06:36 +0100 Graham Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've recently started checking out the lighter window managers - > especially Blackbox and IceWM. On the whole pretty impressive but I am > having one or two difficulties that I hope someone out there will be > able to help me with: <snip don't know IceWM> > 2. > I've added items to the menu, using Menudrake, but they don't > come up in the Blackbox or IceWM menus. Why should this be and > can I do anything about it? In Blackbox, you have to edit the Menu file. This is located in ~/.blackbox. It is very simple to edit, just looking at the file you will see what you need to do. If not, "man blackbox" will give more explanation. > 3. > How does one change the background for Blackbox? bsetroot or bsetbg. One or both of these should be on your system. bsetroot has a man page. The Blackbox man page has a good description of how to create themes, which also talks about backgrounds (like if you want a solid color, gradient, or pattern instead of an image). > That's probably enough to be going on with. Please point me in the > right direction if you can. I am using Mandrake 7.2. I hope what I'm telling you is the same for 7.2 as for 8.1! HTH, Todd -- Todd Slater 10:25am up 10 days, 35 min, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.06 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Albert Einstein)
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