On Tue, 28 May 2002, Mr.X wrote:
On Tue, 28 May 2002 18:38:04 -0400
Kyle Donaldson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These show off many of the common styles (what Blackbox calls it's
themes)...
Hmm, speaking as a layman, this would confuse the hell out of me. Why?
What Blackbox calls it's
Here's another screenshot for youse:
http://www.pointlessmovement.net/grafin/bb-ss-1.png
or, if that one stops working, try
http://www.gilex.net/grafin/bb-ss-1.png
(I'm in the middle of a domain switch-over, and the server's a bit flakey.
flakey...)
--gile
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Jan Schaumann wrote:
cthulhain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
please change #!/bin/sh at the top of your script to #!/bin/bash
because
of the following:
WINDOW_IDS=(`xlsclients -l | grep Window | sed s/Window // | sed
s/://`)
I'd rather see it adjusted to work with
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
blackbox spawns programs (from the root menu) via execl(), while bbkeys
uses execve() (or vice versa, don't remember). this leads to, on both of
my machines at least, terminals with different characteristics (see
below). could you guys agree on a
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, xOr wrote:
Blackbox 0.62.1 is released!
Here's what the changelog reports:
* added Chinese nls
* support srcdir in all makefiles
* multibyte support is only enabled when the locale actually needs it
* cleaned up the ignore lock modifier code
Yes! Finally, Blackbox is
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
1) http://www.planetquake.com/lvl/blackbox
2) http://www.threadbox.net/blackbox
3) http://www.threadbox.net/blackbox/lightgfx.html
4) http://speed.seas.upenn.edu/~rarya/bb2/
5) http://speed.seas.upenn.edu/~rarya/bb/index.html
6)
On 25 Jan 2002, Luke Freeman wrote:
SNIP
Well, if you are looking purely at the configuration aspects (menu/style
editors) of blackbox there is no real difference between bbconf and
whiteBOX. I think as a menu editor and style editor they are pretty much
evenly matched.
bbconf does
Here goes the restraints of the list members, now that I've opened my
mouth...
On 23 Jan 2002, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
S N I P
Not necessary the case. The date inserted in the slit could be
configured to wrap to fit the slit width, thus not increasing the slit
beyond a minimum. Something
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Greg Gilbert wrote:
I was having a problem moving windows with alt+click, and I did have
my keyboard modified using xmodmap to remove the numlock button. I
turned off the mapping and startup and all is well. I've attached
the mappings I used.
Greg
Ah, but my
On 19 Jan 2002, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
blammo, etc.
snip
I'm also releasing bbconf 1.4 tonight. There are lots of enhancements,
bug fixes, and neato thingeys in both releases and I'll try to explain a
little below
snippity
- build fixes for FreeBSD--FreeBSD calls qt2's lib
I just installed 0.62.0 and after starting it I can't resize or move any
windows! Anyone have an idea as to why this is happening?
--gile
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 19-Jan-2002 Kyle Donaldson wrote:
I just installed 0.62.0 and after starting it I can't resize or move
any
windows! Anyone have an idea as to why this is happening?
well, it works here..
Do you mean you can nove resize them
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
snip
bizarre, it works here and for many other people.
No change has been made to the window code since pre4 which made it so
numlock
and friends did not affect blackbox.
It actually stopped working on my box at pre3 (I had been using
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Marcin Cylke wrote:
Hello
I'm new with the Black Box.I downladed the packed archive with sources of
black box 0.61.1 and have problems with its compilation.I run configure,
and the make, as a usual user.It effects with this error messages:
[snip]
i.e. `friend class
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, mattias/spikboll wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 18:02:50 +0100 ray@crytek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've put my HTML skills to the test and reworked Threads design. I've
removed all images except the 'blackbox' and the 'blackbox title'. I've
also
removed most of the nested
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Thread wrote:
Wacha guys think of this?
http://www.threadbox.net/blackbox
We can add some more cutie graphics if that's what people like, but I
also know the blackbox crowd is a minimalistic one. (I know I am.) We'll
see what people like.
Beautiful. Loaded very fast
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Jan Schaumann wrote:
[snip]
Now, if blackbox receives any of SIGSEGV,SIGFPE, SIGINT or SIGTERM, it
calls this shtudonw-function, just as if exit had been selected from
the menu. It would therefore stand to reason that if you CTRL-ALT-BSPC
X, bb should receive a
(Oh, like I can resist making the argument worse...)
Here's a quick Gtk+ program that confirms BB's exit. It sends signal 15
(SIGTERM), which BB catches and properly exits itself, most likely bringing
down X with it.
http://www.pointlessmovement.net/hacks/tbbexit.tar.gz
--gile
--
It's
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
[snip]
I daren't mis-type something, because all I will see is a string of
literal '^H's when I press backspace.
[snip]
To delete the character behind the cursor, you use the rubout or
erase
key (this is the backspace key). You may need
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Christian Dysthe wrote:
I have done some more testing and come up with something iteresting:
It seems the crashes ONLY happens if no mail matches the search
criteria. As long as an e-mail is found matching the criteria
Blackbox won't crash. In other WM's you get a
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Glyn Millington wrote:
Greetings - I've just downloaded the most marvellous theme (which shall
be nameless, at least for now) EXCEPT that when I move the mouse over a
window it acquires an ugly white rim. It spoils an otherwise nicly murky
screen.
Can anyone tell me
/* the old quoting was disgusting */
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Christian Dysthe wrote:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 08:26:56 -0600:
gino peregrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have downloaded installed bbconf; however, when I try to open it,
it
crashes with a segmentation fault.
If it was a binary
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Christian Dysthe wrote:
I guess I wasn't precise in my first mail. I do get bbconf to save most
stuff, but not the Qt stuff: The BBConf Qt Widget Style. When I try to
change that I get an error message saying it was not able to save to the
file specified, and I have not
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Neven Boric wrote:
[snipp]
I can't get bsetbg to work with images, it always returns 'test: argument
expected' (or something similar, I'm at home right now). ...
That's either a problem with the system test(1) command or the system
sh(1). It looks as if it was written
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Jan Schaumann wrote:
Herman Tamas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jan Schaumann wrote:
It should create the bloody directory if it doesn't exist... at
least
that's what i'd have done...
No, if the default is not existing, it should kindly ask the user
where
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, tp40 wrote:
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:22:50 -0400 (EDT)
To: Blackbox Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: tp40 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: bbconf problems
I've been trying to change the look of bbconf using the selector on the
front page, but
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Josh Gates wrote:
hey
Im trying to edit some themes to look better with transparent
terminals. Ive noticed that on most themes, there is a white/black border
around the inside of the window frame. when its focused its white, and
when its unfocused its black. This is
I could contact Brad Jeff regarding this idea, but i don't want to do
it if you, guys are not with me.
So if there are anybody who wants me to do this task, he/she should drop
me a mail.
When i get the critical mass of reactions (which is ~10 mail in this
case i think), i will decide what
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
That and it breaks the first rule of Unix: Do one thing and do it well.
hate to break it to you but every gui ever written does that (-:
I know, but I just felt like venting after the build took 25 bloody
minutes, mainly because of the
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Mark Hill wrote:
Hi,
before I start moaning, I want to say thanks to the makers for doing
bbconf 1.0 :-)
Okay, I'm trying to compile bbconf 1.0 from source on a slackware 8.0
system.
./configure finishes with no errors, but make always
be needed by anyone else but the developers. (Why
does ./configure insist on checking for them? The generation has already
been done, otherwise ./configure wouldn't exist!)
--
Kyle Donaldson
Movement Without Reason
Our company is like Microsoft quality, a figment of your imagination
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Jan Schaumann wrote:
Or is there a way to compile BB without the slit so that it is disabled
altogether?
./configure --disable-slit
(As you can't see the slit when nothing's in it, why would it need to be
disabled?)
--gile
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, after playing in traffic, Jeff Raven yelped:
Well, the menu parser is currently line-based and rather
nasty... some easier solutions would be to either
-- put the long command in a script, and just use the
script as the command instead
-- set up some X
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, after playing in traffic, nicolas delon yelped:
I wrote a patch that expands the two forms of ~ expansion:
- ~/ : a simple getenv(HOME)
- ~jeff/ : a getpwname
and when blackbox rewrites .blackboxrc it takes the '~' form.
I have coded it with a class, so i have
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, after playing in traffic, Jeff Raven yelped:
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:11:05AM -0500, ??t ??h wrote:
I am stumped. Every time I edit the session.Menu pointer in
/home/scott/.blackboxrc to a menu file other than the default
file /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu, I
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, after playing in traffic, s yelped:
I know this has been hashed an rehashed on the list. But I thought of
this today at work, let me know what you guys think of it:
for the key navigation of the menus, how about enumerating every menu
item, so that a user can press
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Mark Weinem wrote:
[snippity]
And if you engulf the menu not deep enough (so that the first
entries of the menu are visible) it doesn't slide in totally. You
will see the first entries of the menu permanently. Why doesn't it
slide in totally, so that only
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, M Leary wrote:
Hi! How are you?
I send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later. Thanks
Hmm... not only do I get it a second time, but my mail program (Spruce
0.7.5) shows that there is a third part that is 1.05 GB long.
Windows is so inherently
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Ben Jansens wrote:
Ok, I've given this some thought and talked this over with others, and I
think this is the best idea we've come up with:
Currently, when bbkeys fires the Next Window message, blackbox catches the
message, and switches to the next window.
The same
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, xOr wrote:
While I'm on this huge maillist clogging spree.. :P
One thing that I'd really really like to see, is the ability to bind a
key, with bbkeys, to opening the applications menu and windows menu. This
can't possibly be a hard one to do.. I'll probly stick my nose
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, after beating me senseless, Gregory J. Barlow wrote:
[snip]
Because the styledir code does not recurse through subdirectories,
something you wanted. I personally would prefer that menus remain simply
flat text files so that I can move them easily between systems.
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Tim Keating wrote:
[snip]
What I'd like to do is switch to the graphical login (kdm, gdm, or xdm)
and still have the ability to switch between single or dual head, for the
obvious reason that DRI doesn't work in dual head mode, and I _HAVE_ to
have DRI to play games. 8-)
Here's a slight patch to allow ~ to be used in .blackboxrc.
It's only allowed on session.menuFile and session.styleFile, as those
are the only ones I know of that need the path. After ~ has been expanded
the first time, it is rewritten as the expanded version when Blackbox
rewrites it's config
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Bartek Kostrzewa wrote:
You must know that a program can only be iconified correctly if it
initialises after the window manager, so to solve this, I've done
following
in my .xinitrc
($WMANAGER is a global variable of my distribution which defines the
default wm for
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, after beating gile to a bloody pulp, Andy Kopciuch
wrote:
If people are so unhappy with the way things currently have been developed
in regards to blackbox, and it's applications, here's a couple of things
to
think about:
First the are not that many bb apps out there
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Andy Kopciuch wrote:
[snip]
As for the newbies ease of use. IMO blackbox is very specialized WM, and
not
for a linux newbie. They would sit around on their hands for 2 hours
trying
to figure out how to put a shortcut on the desktop. I think bb caters to
the
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Andy Kopciuch wrote:
[snip]
The point was not to state bb's association with Linux, but to point out
it's
association with verteran computer users.
(Oooh, responses! Yay!)
Ummm... yeah I already knew that. That's why I said Begin being asshole,
although there's no
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jeff Raven wrote:
D) Provide two menu items, say [exec] and [cexec]; the first
would just use sh, the second sh -c. rootCommand would
still use sh -c. For the most part this would make things
work like they used to before the exec code was changed.
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Kyle Donaldson wrote:
[snip]
Thanks for this ideas. (And sorry for the delayed reply.)
Obeying quotes and escapes is a good idea, but I think expanding
wildcards
and the other features are superfluous (at least as a blackbox
On Sun, 6 May 2001, after plotting his latest world takeover plan, Jason
Kasper wrote:
Holy CRAP!!! Somebody actually uses toolbox out there!?!?!? =:) Rock
ON, BAYBEE!! =:)
[snip]
Scary, ain't it?
But wait, there's more: not only do I use it, I added a small feature to it
(frameWidth),
On 05 May 2001, Forrest English wrote:
it's really simple, and needs some more work, or at least more included
templates. but, i figure i make themes often enough that it might be
useful.
http://truffula.net/~forrest/bbtheme.shtml
comments appriciated, even if they're really harsh.
It
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, after completing his latest world takeover plan, Eric
Hostetler wrote:
I am trying to get started using Blackbox. I am fairly new to Linux. I
configured and installed Blackbox but when i type in the Blackbox command it
tells me:
BaseDisplay::BaseDisplay: connection to X
On Mon, 02 Apr 2001, Peter Peltonen wrote:
On my RH7.0 laptop with 800x600 resolution I find the fonts too large. How
can
I make them smaller?
I tried to edit the /etc/X11/fs/config file and change the
default-point-size
value to a smaller one, but that did not affect Blackbox in any way.
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Jason vanRijn Kasper wrote:
So. It's been a while. =:) bbkeys 0.3.6 is hereby released into the wild,
may
God have mercy on us. Thanks to several patches and ideas sent in from
my little user community (look, Ma, I've got users!!), bbkeys now sports
several new
Well, since it looks like no one actually cares what I have to say, and the
ones that read it seem to just want to shoot me down, I just have to ask
Why does any one here care? I mean, if it's that bad, we can deal with it
when the time comes.
(Thanks for insulting me after I tried to make a
#
# I wrote this open letter to the Unix world, after reading everything that
went
# on over 'Open letter re Gnome'. Maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't, but
just
# read it before jumping to conclusions.
#
Why do we care so much about what other people use, or think about
what we use?
Take
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, after finishing his latest world takeover plan, Eli Segal
wrote:
Hi
I'be got this utility XNonets+ and I want to put it
in the slit for convinient reasons
anybody know how to do it ?
it opens in a regular window
eli
Look through the program's docs, there
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, after plotting his latest world takeover plan William
Leese wrote:
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:55:21 +0100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: William Leese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Blackbox + backgrounds?
The subject says it all really.
Is there
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, marco.fioretti wrote:
... I have used blackbox 0.61 rpm with RedHat 6.2 with no
problems for a couple of months now. Install was a piece
of cake. Only glitch ...(is not being able to use)...
keystrokes to change between windows and workspaces.
The programmers have
..I'll probably be 'blugeoned to s*it by big f*cking rocks' for this...
--
Maybe you people are forgetting something. Blackbox (and a lot of other stuff)
is 'freely-distributable, open-source software' and anyone can do whatever
they
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
make bbkeys do something useful when the key is clicked and the gui tool is
not
installed and I will gladly remove the qt depends.
Ok, here's the diff to bbkeys.cc. It tries to launch the QT gui tool, and if
it fails, launches an xterm with
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:19:52 +0100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: blackbox on NetBSD/macppc ?
i have tried to set up blackbox on an iMac rev. running NetBSD 1.5 .
while the config/compile part went just peachy, it
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Morten Brix Pedersen wrote:
Hi,
How can I change the clock from 12 hour clock, to a 24 hours clock?
Edit ~/.blackboxrc
Look for the line:
session.screen0.strftimeFormat: %I:%M %p
If you want to just display 24 hour time:
session.screen0.strftimeFormat: %H:%M
(Don't
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Morten Brix Pedersen wrote:
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 03:23:54 +0100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Morten Brix Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Click to focus functionality
Hi,
When 'Click to focus' is enabled, I can only focus a window by hitting
the title or the
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Bill Beal wrote:
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:00:30 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Bill Beal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Click to focus functionality
Kyle Donaldson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Something's wrong then, because when I tried 'Click to
focus', I can
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Bill Beal wrote:
[snip]
YMMV, but I added the following lines to my .xinitrc after
determining the proper keycodes with xev, perhaps you could
try the same numbers:
# Map extra fnc keys for bbkeys
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 115 = F30" #left Windows button
Hi. Im wondering how to initialize KDE2 in BB. In KDE1 i just put kde
in a
terminal under BB and it loaded ok, but now that not happend.
Thanks in advance.
A_V
Take a look at this if you haven't already:
http://www.draknor.net/kbb
It may have what you're looking for. I don't use
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