The toolbar is the horizontal ba at bottom of screen with workspace names
and date (for example). Right click on it: it should say Toolbar.
For other definition, see What is the Slit? at
http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/blackbox/faq.html
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of the rest of the world's X11 apps maybe 10 - 20% do. The author of metacity
explains this in his FAQ. If they do not use the SM library you end up playing
Where is this FAQ?
(I found metacity tar files.)
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On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, KMV Dev wrote:
But when I put this command in bb menu, it does not
launch wine at all, even if I specify the full path
to wine.
What does your menu entry look like?
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4 - put the date beside the time
man strftime, then edit ~/.blackboxrc
thanks, what is the %p for? it was in the default but didnt seem to do
anything
%pis replaced by the locale's equivalent of either ``AM'' or ``PM''.
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On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:
ok, now that i've got it working, i'm not having much luck getting the mouse
switched to left-handed mode. bbconf is out of the question unless i manage
Read your xmodmap manual page -- search for left-handed. It has an
example.
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and either opens it in google or
treats it as a url.
I understand that. But how do you use it?
Select some text then type opener? Or do you select
the text and then click on opener in your menu?
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explanation. This sure sounds useful!
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: kfm (KDE filemanager), gmc (GNOME
filemanager), xfm (X filemanager), ROX, dfm ...
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echo '9,J8HD,fDGG8B@?:536FC5=8@I;C5?@H5B0D5GBIELD54DL8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\
sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'
discussion
(and for some infrequent X discussion).
Use google to find X and blackbox FAQs.
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echo '9,J8HD,fDGG8B@?:536FC5=8@I;C5?@H5B0D5GBIELD54DL8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\
sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'
about this in the devel list. My approach is to make the rc
What is this devel list?
I asked about a development list for blackbox a couple months ago, but was
told that one was not needed.
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is
used.
Any ideas about this off-topic problem?
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echo '9,J8HD,fDGG8B@?:536FC5=8@I;C5?@H5B0D5GBIELD54DL8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\
sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'
. You may redistribute the files, original or modified.
What about retaining the license in the distributed, modified files?
(In other words, how will someone using the new file based on the original
know?)
Jeremy C. Reed
echo '9,J8HD,fDGG8B@?:536FC5=8@I;C5?@H5B0D5GBIELD54DL8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\
sed
; some things
I noticed about it:
http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/mail/mail-clients.html
By the way, does anyone know how to get pine to reply just to list? (For
example, list is the Cc and I don't want to chose to reply to all,
manually delete To:, and then delete Cc: and paste to To:.)
Jeremy C
, but it has been discussed on this list a few
times. You can use bbappconf or bblaunch to launch applications with
location and size.
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at source to see what all
that means though.
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sets up some definitions, like:
#define LINUX_CDROMSTART0x5308
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if (menuitems-count()) {
My patches are at http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/blackbox/patches/
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tr /-_ :\ Sc-y./ | sed swxw`uname`w
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echo 'G014AE824B0-07CC?/JJFFFI?D64CBD=3C427=;6HI2J' |
tr /-_ :\ Sc-y./ | sed swxw`uname`w
.
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tr /-_ :\ Sc-y./ | sed swxw`uname`w
?
(All I could do is move the pointer around.)
Also, for some reason I can't figure out how to get my focus back after
using this. I use click to fcous, but now only clicking on titlebar works.
(My numlock, scroll lock and caps lock are off.)
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icons go!?!?!
Covered.
How do I set the desktop background??
Covered.
Can I use a keybinding to call the menu?
Need to add (I think).
My blackbox faq uses a small script to generate it.
It has been translated to Russian and I think it has been translated to
Japanese.
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echo
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
Uh, XF86 (with XKB extension) is supposed to be able to completely emulate
the mouse with the keyboard. Shift-NumLock toggles the MouseKeys feature,
and the keypad does all the mouse functions. Don't know if that is what
your looking
landing
mooring
It took my a long time to remember slit. If we must change, my vote goes
for landing or mooring.
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make it hard to use.
This reminded me that it is an inconvenience to have to move windows after
I create them.
Then I tried the Blackbox Config Options for Window Placement and set it
to use Smart Placement (by rows). It is great!
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that the libraries weren't found.
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/lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)
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On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, David S. Cargo wrote:
Jeremy C. Reed asked me to post the problems I had with bbpager
building on Cygwin XFree-86. I did so, but I haven't been able to
find his e-mail address to remind him to look at the message or the
Too bad all those spammers can still find
/include/X11/Xlib.h
So I think you need -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11.
You could run configure with --x-includes=-I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 or
set CFLAGS in src/Makefile.
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You could run configure with --x-includes=-I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 or
(Copy and paste didn't work for me.)
--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include/X11
set CFLAGS in src/Makefile.
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It is a little confusing, because it seems that X and xdm have another
definition of session management. I am curious: how does xdm and XDMCP
sessions relate to this?
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the different session files because I shouldnt have to
.. :)
Only one file is needed. (Or none and it will use the default.)
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tr /-_ :\ Sc-y./ | sed swxw`uname`w
!
Thanks for all your work!
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) used?
(Please consider adding that information to your webpage. I am curious
what a few of those apps are.)
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is BSD licensed, that
it should all stay BSD licensed.)
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to tell it to close. Then blackbox should quickly do
the right thing.
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to NetBSD's new toolchain. I'll look at the
this PR later and see if it really is a blackbox issue.
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erase 'Ctrl-v followed by backspace'
Press CTRL-V and then press your Backspace key.
Maybe this may look like: stty erase '^?'
Good luck. (And yes, this has nothing really to do with blackbox.)
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Regarding the bb crashes (dumps core) when changing workspaces quickly
issue, I recall seeing a workaround -- or a diagnosis, but I forgot what
it is.
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, in other words, bbkeys is never even started!
Place the bbkeys line before the exec line. (Remember that exec stops the
current script from being used, so should be at the last line.)
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
However I'd like to use the -i option. Surely having the icon at all
isn't very useful?
The icon has a use. Click on it.
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Andres Montiel wrote:
I tried starting X server by typing startx, but KDE comes out.
Try creating a ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession file that has:
#!/bin/sh
exec blackbox
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http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/blackbox/faq.html
great blackbox is
using the noble BSD-style license. As it is, bbkeys can not (should not)
go back into blackbox. (Which is sad -- because I like bbkeys
functionality, but I prefer it to be part of blackbox.)
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
Using lots of simple tools (versus bloatware) is not always the best, most
stable, or easiest way.
There have been a few people that have claimed this. However, I've yet
to see any sound examples where the simple tools
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Scott Moynes wrote:
* Jeremy C. Reed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Nothing wrong with providing several updates to blackbox. One way or
another you choose to download and rebuild something.
Not if you don't use bbkeys.
True.
Does anyone use blackbox without keygrab
know. I have used blackbox for a couple years before bbkeys was needed.
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that a lot of
code included with commercial SunOS, Windows NT, free Linux distributions
and other operating systems and software is BSD licensed -- it is widely
used.
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to blackbox ...
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that uses a shell
environment variable to determine which editor to launch. I then place
an empty menu file in /etc/skel/.blackbox/menu so that all new users
have the file and ~/.blackbox directory.
Good ideas.
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-window root /home/reed/images/animals/cougar01.jpg
I am sure you can find many more tools via freshmeat.
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xwininfo) records
the details and so next time the X starts up, it can restart all the
windows the same?
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) {xset m 0 10}
[end]
I do not need to see what the current settings are. I do not need to waste
display space to know what the current settings are.
Note that mixerctl comes with NetBSD. I am assuming that a similar
command-line mixer interface is available for other operating systems.
Jeremy C
the answer).
Or search the archive -- this has been discussed probably over fifty
times.
Hmmm. The archive hasn't been updated for a while.
Jeremy C. Reed
ps. I make sure caps lock, num lock and scroll lock are always off.
parts
of the paths of the filenames defined in the patch
file. For example. if path is /src/Window.cc
-p0 : blackbox/src/Window.cc
-p1 : src/Window.cc
-p2 : Window.cc
(If -p0 patch complains it cannot find filename, try -p1 etc.) Then make
and optionally make install.
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or other ...
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or NUM LOCK keys are on.
Somebody recently mentioned a patch or future change to blackbox to
disable this. (I think a configuration directive should be set to allow or
disallow this.)
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:).
Sounds interesting. Let us know when done.
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offer to pay someone to do the patch, it will be done
immediately. (Even someone who is too busy -- like me -- or not interested
would be willing to code the patch if appropriately paid.) Depending on
the need, many open source projects are financially funded.
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workspaces all under one
menu.
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graphical icon solutions that work well
with blackbox?
I don't use the slit, is there any bbapp to place small graphical icons in
the slit?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
p.s. off-topic for this list, but feel free to reply off-list:
- does anyone know of any mailing lists/forums for discussing various
/bookmarks_to_blackbox_menu
/home/reed/.blackbox/bookmarks.menu}
Anyways, [exec] should work.
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it
remotely).
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some more.
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echo '9,J8HD,fDGG8B@?:536FC5=8@I;C5?@H5B0D@5GBIELD54DL@8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\
sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'
and builds the menu
file that way.
It can already do that with style files (using [stylesdir] and/or
[stylesmenu]).
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and issues related to
blackbox.
Try http://www.everybuddy.com/
http://valhalla.marko.net/pipermail/everybuddy/
Good luck,
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, they would need
to change their [exec] menu entries to [shexec].)
(I am sure you saw it, but I did provide a patch that works for me the
past week.)
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are superfluous (at least as a blackbox menu
entry). If someone wants this further support, they should just use sh
-c (or my [shexec]) to have the shell do the extra work.
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the command with its aruments (but no shell functionality
included).
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are a waste of
time and resources. (Please note that my blackbox menu entries for these
rxvt's do not have any shell pipes, redirections or any other sh
functionality.)
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to it. My only guess is that it is in Window.cc but man that
Search for moving in Window.cc.
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Henry Kleynhans wrote:
When I try to start it up, I get an error from Blackbox saying that
it could not find the default font.
This is just a guess:
Blackbox's default font is lucidasans-10 and lucidasans-bold-10
Is it installed?
$ xlsfonts lucidasans-10
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them.
If it didn't return a core dump, then make sure your limits/resources are
setup to allow core dumps.
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echo '9,J8HD,fDGG8B@?:536FC5=8@I;C5?@H5B0D@5GBIELD54DL@8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\
sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'
by that shell. Then if you open
another xterm, it may have different resource limits. Make sure it is set
at login time via your operating system's user or login classes.
I am not sure, but maybe you can set it in the .xinitrc script before
starting blackbox.
Jeremy C. Reed
in this command: from a text-based console or via X11
term window?
Anyways, usually you start blackbox when X starts up, like:
$ cat ~/.xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
rxvt -fn 6x13
bbkeys -no -t -w
exec blackbox
Make sure X works for you.
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echo '9,J8HD,fDGG8B@?:536FC5=8@I;C5?@H5B0D
BlackBox - Light for those on a diet
http://www.linuxtoday.com.au/r/article/jsp/sid/949617
If anyone is interested in contributing a blackbox article (with a focus
on installing and configuring on a BSD) for BSD Today, please email me
off-list.
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echo '9,J8HD,fDGG8B@?:536FC5=8@I
problems with different window managers
under X11 (XFree86 Version 3.3.6) with Rage 128 GL Video using XF86_SVGA
(I think). (If I remember correctly, the XFree86 4.x fixes the problem for
this card.)
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) has
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; basically (in this
case) the Makefile has instructions to help build the source code to
create the blackbox executables (and help install it and documentation and
styles).
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" turns it off.
The dash is the commonly-used character for setting command-line
switches/options. So if "-" sets it, then "+" unsets it. It is a little
confusing.
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ain
a semicolon, back-tick or a pipe.
RootCommand (if enabled) will run even if the RootImage was defined and
used.
This patch is useful so you can disable your RootCommand capabilities and
so Theme (style) designers can add an optional "RootImage" if the
RootCommand is disabled.
Plea
another style directive could be "bsetroot" that defines the a
bsetroot options.
By adding one blackboxrc configuration and two style directives, the
themes can have a default look even if the rootCommand is disabled.
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with the application to the selected
workspace
from the man page.
Thanks! I didn't know that 0.61.1 was released. It has the improved manual
page.
(Last night, I spent about an hour working on a "Switch To ..." menu entry
to do what your middle-click feature already does.)
documented at http://blackbox.alug.org/
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://movingparts.windsofstorm.net)]-
Enter Key to Grab to begin, or 'Q' to quit.
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.
man 3 strftime
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manager. (It should be easy to go from
blackbox to KDE.)
I don't want to log out; I don't want to edit my xinitrc/xsession.
Thanks,
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tems-count()) {
If not, I'll consider getting busy and learning C++ . . .
I'll be glad to test your code! Be sure to look at the the other bbtools
for ideas.
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/Basemenu.cc.orig src/Basemenu.cc
You can use the patch by typing patch (while in the blackbox-0.61.0
directory) and pasting in the pathc liens above.
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Workspace List Icons menu to
the top right corner of my screen. But it often grows too large and makes
1/8th to 1/4 (and more) of my screen unusable.
Any ideas?
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resources.
man blackbox # and read the RESOURCE FILE section
It is also available via http://www.xs4all.nl/~wbsoft/linux/blackbox/.
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itself? I don't know how to do it
either way..
rxvt and xterm can use a geometry resource or command line option; aterm
probably has the same -- read the manpage for aterm.
-geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT+XOFF+YOFF
Maybe:
aterm -geometry +50+50
aterm -geometry +50+400
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releated) is the changelog.
I clicked on "Source Archive" from http://blackbox.alug.org/. It took me
to ftp://portal.alug.org/pub/blackbox/.
Hope this helps,
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because I don't have the old version
around.)
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I am interested in using the Konqueror web browser, but I am not
interested in building KDE 2 or using KDE.
Does anyone use Konqueror under Blackbox?
Does anyone know if Konqueror can be built without KDE 2? (If you have any
links or hints, please share.)
Thanks,
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Here's
-smooth -maxpect image-filename.png
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