Re: bbpager doesn't exit

2002-01-13 Thread Fran
exec bbpager blackbox Fran :):):) On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:26, you wrote: In order to start bbpager with BlackBox, I added the line exec blackbox bbpager to the xinitrc. bbpager does start with BlackBox this way. However, It doesn't exit when I click on Exit on the menu. All the windows

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Martijn Houtman
On Sunday 13 January 2002 15:44, you wrote: Is there anyway to get Eterm working with Transparent background with blackbox? Or must I use Aterm to get this feature working? Yes, but you must use a gnome utility to set the background, like Esetroot, else it won't work. -- tinus

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Anh Lai
oh man, that sucks, i refuest to install GNOME. oh well, I can live without it. ... On 01/13/02, Martijn Houtman decided to write ... On Sunday 13 January 2002 15:44, you wrote: Is there anyway to get Eterm working with Transparent background with blackbox? Or must I use Aterm to get

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Anh Lai
yeah, figured it out, forgot bsetroot does gradient stuff of bb that Eterm does not understand. So it only works for actual files. ... On 01/13/02, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry decided to write ... On 13-Jan-2002 Martijn Houtman wrote: On Sunday 13 January 2002 15:44, you wrote: Is there anyway

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai wrote: yeah, figured it out, forgot bsetroot does gradient stuff of bb that Eterm does not understand. So it only works for actual files. So Eterm will not use a bsetroot generated background for transparency? If this is true, it should be easily fixed. A bug in

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:12:32AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai wrote: yeah, figured it out, forgot bsetroot does gradient stuff of bb that Eterm does not understand. So it only works for actual files. So Eterm will not use a bsetroot generated background

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Anh Lai
echo $LANG gives: en echo $LC_ALL gives nothing, it's not set ... On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:00:46 -0800 (PST) Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] decided to write: ... On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai wrote: hello, I am new to Blackbox, but not to linux. Some themes come with ansi fonts(.pcf), I

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 03:54:36PM +0100, Martijn Houtman wrote: On Sunday 13 January 2002 15:44, you wrote: Is there anyway to get Eterm working with Transparent background with blackbox? Or must I use Aterm to get this feature working? Yes, but you must use a gnome utility to set the

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:12:32AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai wrote: yeah, figured it out, forgot bsetroot does gradient stuff of bb that Eterm does not understand. So it only works for actual files. So Eterm will not use a bsetroot generated background

Re: BB Feature

2002-01-13 Thread Eskimoe
On 04 Jan 2002 18:57:53 -0800 Mike Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks good in Evolution. Same in Sylpheed. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP available)

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
We went through this in #blackbox a couple of months ago. You see it in reverse with applications like aterm remembering old backgrounds: 1. use bsetroot to set the background. 2. aterm et al respect the background setting and transparency works. 3. Eterm complains about unsupported

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Martijn Houtman
Yes, but you must use a gnome utility to set the background, like Esetroot, else it won't work. Since when is Esetroot a Gnome utility? It's part of the Eterm distribution. You're right, I meant Enlightenment.

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Tracy Williams
If you're using a 7.x Redhat, you can edit the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file and change the LANG=en variable to LANG=POSIX. I didn't try LANG=C, but either would probably work. Tracy On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 11:15:08 -0800 (PST) Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:19:36AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: So, I was a E hacker way back when and saw the birth of Eterm. I even used to work with its author (ick). You have my condolences. :) Eterm... bleah. So much required, for so little gain. When Eterm was created it was

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jan-2002 Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:19:36AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: So, I was a E hacker way back when and saw the birth of Eterm. I even used to work with its author (ick). You have my condolences. :) Eterm... bleah. So much required, for so little

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai wrote: hmmm, I tried LANG=C, and LANG=POSIX and LANG unset, still does not display the font wanted, only a big ugly one. anymore ideas? I just exported the variable, i didnt change the /etc/sysconfig/i18n. you must do this BEFORE you launch X or blackbox. If you

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Anh Lai
I understand that, and that is what i did i dropped to console, and exported to C, POSIX and unset it before starting X ... On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:06:46 -0800 (PST) Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] decided to write: ... On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai wrote: hmmm, I tried LANG=C, and LANG=POSIX

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai wrote: hmmm, I tried LANG=C, and LANG=POSIX and LANG unset, still does not display the font wanted, only a big ugly one. anymore ideas? I just exported the variable, i didnt change the /etc/sysconfig/i18n. ok, on the console where blackbox was started

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Vincenzo Colosimo
Hi! A while back, there was a similar discussion about the Xserver/font problem, where i mentioned that i changed the artwiz fonts to work correctly with blackbox. So if you would try them out i can send them to you ( since my provider accidently removed my write permissions, i cannot put them

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:05:54PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: You can ask for the root, but you are then responsible for many other things, the code is not as happy. That makes sense. Must have happy code. ^_^ Atom's hold integer indexes into the X server. You store the Pixmap ID

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:14:39PM +0100, Vincenzo Colosimo wrote: However, there may be obsolete, since i have changed the file blackbox-0.61.1/src/i18n.cc. In the line 58 i've changed: locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, ); to: locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, C); After then all fonts are

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Atom's hold integer indexes into the X server. You store the Pixmap ID and then ask for it. So of: _XSETROOT_ID _XROOTPMAP_ID ESETROOT_PMAP_ID Which is the one that you're supposed to use? I assume that ESETROOT_PMAP_ID is the non-standard one that Eterm

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jan-2002 Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:14:39PM +0100, Vincenzo Colosimo wrote: However, there may be obsolete, since i have changed the file blackbox-0.61.1/src/i18n.cc. In the line 58 i've changed: locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, ); to: locale =

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:22:31PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: right, because aterm was not a login shell and thus your rc file was ignored. No, bash reads ~/.bashrc on a non-login shell. That's what it's FOR: When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jan-2002 Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:22:31PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: right, because aterm was not a login shell and thus your rc file was ignored. No, bash reads ~/.bashrc on a non-login shell. That's what it's FOR: When an interactive shell that

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox? (fwd)

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Jan-2002 Eric Christian Carlsen wrote: My vote is against adopting wmsetbg. I tried to use it with aterm using transparecy and shading. Every time I moved or resized the window it took literally two seconds before it fixes the transparency. It doesn't work well with aterm if you have

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox? (fwd)

2002-01-13 Thread Nexist Xenda'ths
My vote is that you leave it alone. Then again, I don't like having the terminals the same color as the background. I much prefer a different and contrasting color. Douglas

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox? (fwd)

2002-01-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 06:57:21PM -0700, Eric Christian Carlsen wrote: My vote is against adopting wmsetbg. I tried to use it with aterm using transparecy and shading. Every time I moved or resized the window it took literally two seconds before it fixes the transparency. It doesn't work well

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox? (fwd)

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I've spent the last hour or so playing with Eterm again. I think a lot of prejudices I had against it were due to the Debian package of it. Dunno what's really up with it, but it misbehaves terribly if I install the package from unstable, yet if I build it myself it works fine. It's slower