Re: Searching mail crashes Blackbox and X.

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
if (w-isFocused()) { if (screen-isSloppyFocus()) screen-getBlackbox()-setFocusedWindow((BlackboxWindow *) 0); else if (w-isTransient() w-getTransientFor() w-getTransientFor()-isVisible()) w-getTransientFor()-setInputFocus(); else {

Re: Searching mail crashes Blackbox and X.

2001-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Nov-2001 Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi,, I am using Sylpheed Claws 0.6.5. for e-mail. When I search for mail with this program Blackbox often crashes and takes down X with it, especially when I search in folders with a lot of mail. I have tried other WM's (icewm, xfce, kde, fvwm) on my

back trace provided Re: Searching mail crashes Blackbox and X.

2001-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Ok friends, here is your chance to earn some karma. I am a little busy and have not been able to devote full attention to this. here is his backtrace from gdb on the core. gdb blackbox core (gdb) where #0 0x401d8971 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x401d8775 in raise () from

Re: back trace provided Re: Searching mail crashes Blackbox and

2001-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Nov-2001 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Ok friends, here is your chance to earn some karma. I am a little busy and have not been able to devote full attention to this. here is his backtrace from gdb on the core. Christian, could you be very specific about the version of sylpheed

Re: bbkeys evolution

2001-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
mrowe@jamaro:~$ bbkeys: signal 11 caught shutting down aborting... dumping core though I can't find any files as a result. This is with bbkeys version 0.8.2 from bbkeys_0.8.2-2_i386.deb I'm assuming it's reproducible, as bbkeys has been dying on me at work too, but I hadn't pinned down

Re: bbkeys evolution

2001-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Doh - Just went to get the source tarball and spotted the 0.8.3 release .deb. Installed it and the problem seems to have gone. Thanks for the prompt feedback (and Sean too). I have been unable to find the source for 0.8.3 or it would be in Debian.

Re: bbkeys evolution

2001-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Nov-2001 Marc Wilson wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:24:10PM +, Martin Rowe wrote: Is this what you're after - it appears to be a source package. http://movingparts.thelinuxcommunity.org/bbkeys/bbkeys-0.8.3.tar.gz Could Debian use the current CVS for bbkeys instead of the

Re: bbkeys evolution

2001-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I added the 0.8.3 release to the sourceforge project page, so you can get at it there if you need to. the other reason I was holding off was that someone was supposedly taking over bbkeys as well as uploading bbconf. Nobody stepped up. I can not compile bbconf under Debian because the

Re: newbie

2001-11-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Nov-2001 robert jorgenson wrote: Okay i am fairly new to linux and i have a fairly old system and someone recomended blackbox and after trying like 5 different WM's i found that blackbox ws the fastest and i like it the best too :P But i was wondering if there is any way to customize

Re: Searching mail crashes Blackbox and X.

2001-11-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Nov-2001 Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi,, I am using Sylpheed Claws 0.6.5. for e-mail. When I search for mail with this program Blackbox often crashes and takes down X with it, especially when I search in folders with a lot of mail. I have tried other WM's (icewm, xfce, kde, fvwm) on my

Re: Also, a focus problem i've been having

2001-11-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Nov-2001 Olivier Roulet wrote: Isn't that the NumLock is on or off ? Btw Sean, what is your position concerning one of the few built-in shortcuts ( ALT + MB1 to move a window ) ? It only works when Num-Lock is off . Should't the Shortcut work all the time ? I thought Jeff Raven

Re: On the matter of the next bb release

2001-11-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Here are a few of my intial findings. The proposed algorithm relies on knowing the location of all windows. It then creates a list of the uncovered desktop area expressed in rectangles. This means that there would need to be notifications sent on all window placements and moves. I will

Re: On the matter of the next bb release

2001-11-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
yay bloat ware. thats exactly what I want blackbox to become, maybe you can call it blackbox^2 to express how much more resources it'll take. You are assuming that the algorithm is more expensive than the one we have now. This has not been tested yet. You are also assuming it is

Re: bbkeys / BB / interaction bugs

2001-11-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Nov-2001 Peter Szekszardi wrote: Hi, I use Sloppy Focus and I have some buggy features also. For example if the focus is on app A on workspace 1 and I switch to workspace 2, where there is no window, app A on ws 1 still has the focus. I think the desirable behaviour would be, that

Re: bbkeys / BB interaction bugs

2001-11-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Side question: I notice that sloppy focus is only in effect if the mouse actually crosses the border of the window... feature, or bug? because it gets a window enter event only when the border is crossed.

intent to captain the blackbox ship, seeking comments

2001-11-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Friends, can someone offer a place to put a bug tracker for blackbox? If not I am considering starting a sourceforge project for it. And yes, if Jeff does not stand up and unless nyz complains I plan to step up and captain the ship. Most of you know me, I have been here a long time. nyz and I

Re: Colour problems with KDE + 0.61.1

2001-11-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Nov-2001 shev wrote: Hi, I've recently installed and began to use blackbox with KDE, however I have been having problems with colour. When I try to view say, a photograph/picture or any other high resolution graphic it appears 'freyed' or scruffy - as if I am in a lower colour depth.

Re: intent to captain the blackbox ship, seeking comments

2001-11-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Nov-2001 Scott Moynes wrote: There has been some voicings on IRC similar to this. I believe there was a promise of someone hosting CVS and similar amenities to help spurn development, but I am not sure how far they've gotten. (Unfortunately, most of these people unsubscribed from this

Re: intent to captain the blackbox ship, seeking comments

2001-11-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Nov-2001 Michael Hostbaek wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry (shalehperry) writes: On 22-Nov-2001 Scott Moynes wrote: I know the guys from sourceforge, even if VA went tits up tomorrow they are ok. That said, I am more than willing to let someone else host. CVS is not enough though, I

Re: intent to captain the blackbox ship, seeking comments

2001-11-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Nov-2001 Michael Hostbaek wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry (shalehperry) writes: I was under the impression that was for FSF sanctioned projects only. Or at least GPL'ed ones. Well so *was* sourceforge... ;) nah, sourceforge was open source, regardless of license. But, who

waimea, yet another blackbox spawn

2001-11-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Go to sf.net and check out waimea. It is the latest of the new wm's based on blackbox. Nifty new features include direct support for Xrender extensions (anti-aliasing) and 'actions'. Seems interesting if not my cup of tea.

Re: bbdate, included right on the toolbar!

2001-11-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Nov-2001 Jay wrote: Hi, Just wondering if anyone else had noticed... In the .blackboxrc file is a setting for the toolbar's time string (version 5, dont know about 6.) I added '%a %e %b' and now the date appears before the time on the toolbar. Cool. Even a simply %c works, but

Re: Next version

2001-11-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Nov-2001 Andrew wrote: 61.1 Is over a year old, and I was just wondering if there is a development version or a CVS repositopy? I love BB its the best. At the moment, 0.61.1 is the most current. Will see what the near future holds.

Re: [Fwd: chained keygrabs]

2001-11-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
More than anything, I'm curious if anyone else has the desire/need for this kind of functionality. If I understand it correctly, this is leaning towards the Emacs model of keybindings that allow chaining things. So, you press alt+M and then press control+Up to do something. I would like

Re: Fluxbox Licensing

2001-11-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Nov-2001 Jamin W. Collins wrote: I've attempted to contact the author of Fluxbox to clarify the licensing concern over the Keys.cc file. It would appear that grab_defs.hh also bares the GPL license. Jamin W. Collins Why is this a problem? The BSD and GPL licenses are compatible.

Re: Moving and Resizing windows

2001-11-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Nov-2001 Jason Willis wrote: Hello, I'm running Blackbox 0.61.x, XFree86 4.0.3, and Linux kernel 2.4.13-ac3. Whenever I move or resize a window in Blackbox, all other video processes in the background freeze, until I release the mouse button (i.e. stop moving or resizing

Re: Moving and Resizing windows

2001-11-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Nov-2001 Jason Willis wrote: Thanks all of you for your suggestions and explanations. :- ) I've tried the opaque window movement option as recommended, and yes, video playback is not halted during window movement but still is during window resizing.Can you show me where

Re: Signal 11 - not blackbox specific

2001-10-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Oct-2001 Eric Christian Carlsen wrote: Just thought you might be interested in knowing that my signal 11 crashes weren't a blackbox specific problem. It appears to be hardware, it's happening in other window managers too. I tried testing the memory (couldn't find anything wrong with

Re: Signal 11

2001-10-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Oct-2001 Eric Christian Carlsen wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 26-Oct-2001 Eric Christian Carlsen wrote: One other question. Blackbox has been crashing on me with signal elevens fairly often recently. Any idea on what that is? Thanks a sig 11 is a nasty one. Causes run from

Re: Current Development

2001-10-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I think there are a couple of bb bugs that would be nice to see squashed though. Anyone have a list of these? The only bugs I have seen are the weird bbkeys/new workspace bug that was discussed lately and one from the Debian BTS about blackbox crashing when the locale specified is unknown to

RE: workspace change bug

2001-10-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
- was the Focus Last Window on Workspace item checked in Configuration menu? where did that option come from? The only thing close to it is Focus Window on Workspace Change.

Re: bbconf 1.0 is released. BOOM

2001-09-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Sep-2001 Jason Kasper wrote: Actually, after digging into the black arts of auto*, I can say that it's automake that is doing this. If you take a very simple Makefile.am and run automake against it, automake will happily generate a Makefile.in that knows how to rebuild config.h,

RE: bbconf 1.0 is released. BOOM

2001-09-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
and another thing. The configure script adds the X11 libs AFTER the -lqt so it still breaks.

RE: bbconf 1.0 is released. BOOM

2001-09-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
plugin.o: In function `Plugin::Plugin(QObject *, char const *)': plugin.o(.text+0x1d): undefined reference to `Plugin virtual table' plugin.o: In function `Plugin::~Plugin(void)': plugin.o(.text+0xc1): undefined reference to `Plugin virtual table' win.o: In function

Re: bbconf 1.0 is released. BOOM

2001-09-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Sep-2001 Kyle Donaldson wrote: 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

Re: bbconf 1.0 is released. BOOM

2001-09-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
The reason for removing /usr/bin/auto* was because the creators of auto*, in all of their wisdom, decided that if those programs happen to exist on your system, ./configure should be rebuilt and rerun when you *attempt* to run make. I say *attempt* because I have never seen a machine

Re: bbconf 1.0 is released. BOOM

2001-09-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
- trying to configure with g++-2.95 breaks, complaining it can't find Qt (even though it had no problem finding them with g++ 3.0) if you look at config.log, it is actually something else breaking the compilation of the qt test app.

RE: bbmenu

2001-09-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Sep-2001 Mark Hill wrote: Hi, has anybody been working on a bbmenu - a program/script to auto-generate a blackbox menu? I was working on a perl script to the kde side of a bbmenu, but my perl isn't good enough to know how to do recursion. I don't

Re: bbconf 1.0 is released. BOOM

2001-09-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Maybe the autotools a relatively good idea. However, on projects that use them, they should never 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!) I swear that is a

RE: bbconf 1.0 configure error

2001-09-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Sep-2001 Aaron Benedict wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I ran configure for bbconf I got the following error: checking for libz... configure: error: not found. Check your installation and look into config.log What is libz and where can I get the

Re: bbconf 1.0 configure error

2001-09-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Sep-2001 Aaron Benedict wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean, OK. I have it (located in /usr/lib), what do I have to do in order to have it noticed by the configure script? install the development package which includes the headers and the lib links needed

Re: bbconf 1.0 is released. BOOM

2001-09-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Sep-2001 Jason Kasper wrote: I wholeheartedly agree. If anyone can shed light on this annoyance (and enlighten me in the process), I'd be rather grateful. ./configure should ONLY do that--configure what's already been automake'd, autoconf'd, and perl admin/am_edit'd. Why it

RE: bb devel version

2001-09-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Sep-2001 Mark Hill wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there was a development version of blackbox to download? 0.61.x is the latest and greatest. No real devel work in the public for a few months.

RE: disable taskbar?

2001-08-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Aug-2001 Jan Schaumann wrote: Hi all, I know i can set the taskbar to autohide, but is there a way to get rid of it completely? All I'd like to have would be the various little bbtools, but quite frankly, I have no use whatsoever for the taskbar (aside from the clock, which, of

RE: BB list Newbie

2001-08-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
collaborate on a BBox project let me know. I'm short on ideas b ut full of interest :). go write us a file manager (-:

RE: newbie questions

2001-07-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Jul-2001 Marius David wrote: Hello. How can I acces the window menu (Send To..., Shade, ...) for applications like gkrellm, xmms wich have no window border in blackbox? I want to make gkrellm sticky. bbkeys can do this via a key binding.

RE: Are there any devel docs for the BB API?

2001-07-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jul-2001 Chris Bacott wrote: Or should I just read the source? I want to work on BB, but I can't find any docs. it is all in the source, no other docs. The good news is the code blackbox code is well named, designed and layed out. bbtools is a little harder to follow but is also

Re: Are there any devel docs for the BB API?

2001-07-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Thanks. It was mentioned above that There is some 'goal' that Jeff and Brad want to implement. Exactly what spec are they wanting to implement? I was just going to add a few features, port a few apps, etc. I'm coming from Kde, and I love the speed of BB, but it lacks a few features and

RE: side grip vs. bottom handle?

2001-07-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Jul-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello A while back blackbox switched from having a resize and move handle on the right side of the window to a bar on the bottom (a la .. well, a LOT of wm's). I wasn't happy with this change but let it be. Well I was on an old machine w/ and

RE: A menu conflaguration suggetion (Revised)

2001-07-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
For instance, in Windows (I have to keep referring to that because it's the only thing similar I know), I have C:\Winnt\Profiles\Administrator\Start Menu\Subfolders\Shortcuts N' Stuff.lnk and C:\Winnt\Profiles\All Users\Subfolders\Shortcuts N' Stuff.lnk What I would like is, perhaps

RE: New one

2001-07-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
2) How do I create KDE icons in my desktop? tell konqueror to put them there (setting somewhere) 3) How can I switch between applcations if I want to use ALT+TAB? install and configure bbkeys -- this is in the FAQ, read some of the web pages.

Re: sh -c answers thanks!

2001-05-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
C) Eliminate the ability to run compound commands in menu items, but leave it in for rootCommands. 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

Re: sh -c answers thanks!

2001-05-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-May-2001 Jason vanRijn Kasper wrote: umm, and why can't we leave it as is? 1219 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/X11/xfmail 1220 ?S 0:11 /usr/bin/X11/xfmail 1269 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh -c rxvt 1270 ?S 0:00 rxvt Having two processes per process is

Re: sh -c answers thanks!

2001-05-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
But what about not using any /bin/sh? I prefer F) F) Provide two menu items, say [shexec] and [exec]; the first using sh -c and the second not using any sh. rootCommand would still use sh -c. (If users want old behaviour, they would need to change their [exec] menu entries

RE: XOpenDisplay??

2001-05-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-May-2001 blacksub wrote: When I use the configure tool during installation I get the error message: Could not find XOpenDisplay in -lX11 ..and thats as far as I can get. any ideas? VERSIONS: Stampede linux(current) kernel 2.4.3 Xfree86 3.3.6 blackbox 0.60.3 a) install the

RE: WM event handlers in Blackbox

2001-04-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Apr-2001 Greg Larson wrote: Is there any sort of API that will keep me notified of WM events and let me control some of those events? i.e. currently I am doing this with lisp code in sawfish and I want to do the same with BlackBox. not really. bbpager and bbkeys work with X atoms

RE: bbkeys 0.3.6 released

2001-03-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
And a real debian package was just uploaded, unstable users will see it tonight. I removed the QT depends, it now uses the console app.

Re: bbkeys 0.3.6 released

2001-03-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Indulge me in this Can someone who uses the patch or is familiar with it respond to the list with what exactly it does (I seem to recall it being more than a simple keygrab--I think it also had a corresponding configurable action for dealing with the buffer contents). And further,

Re: bbkeys 0.3.6 released

2001-03-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Mar-2001 Jason Kasper wrote: Yeah, that's a feature. =:) I wasn't about to recode the configurator that I consider will be the least-used for this As far as the "x-cut-buffer" feature goes, why not just combine it with the ExecCommand directive so that bbkeys looks for a '%s' in

Re: my feature suggestion

2001-02-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Feb-2001 Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Another way to do this : Right click on the titlebar to bring up the window's menu, go down into the "Send To" submenu and _middle_click_ on a workspace name. Yeah, I was proud of mys

RE: Developer howto

2001-02-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Feb-2001 Robin Rowe wrote: Hi. Is there a developer howto for those who want to make modifications to blackbox and offer patches? I have downloaded blackbox-0.61.1.tar.gz. Is this the right file to work against? Is there CVS or are patches the preferred approach? Is there a list

Re: Toolbar debate

2001-02-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Since I'm not a coder, I'll probably have to join some gkrellm mailing list and try convincing someone over there that the world _needs_ just such a plugin. 8-) Not a gkrellm user, I find that just running bbpager solves my problms. Ony reason I use the toolbar is for the clock.

Re: Toolbar

2001-02-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Feb-2001 Robert Davis wrote: Ahoy Okay, what am I doing wrong? Someone here earlier today suggested that if I just right-click the toolbar, I could get an automatic hide option. But when I right-click the toolbar, the most I can hide is the name of the workspace I am in. No options

RE: Lost windows

2001-02-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Feb-2001 Robin Rowe wrote: Hi. How do I restore minimized applications? Cycling through them on the control bar only seems to touch the ones that are up. you click the middle mouse button (or both at once on a two button mouse) and look at the icons list.

Re: Menu

2001-02-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
or another fluffy feature patch to add a Backgrounds menu like Styles. It reads all of the image files names, then calls bsetbg whenever you choose one. Anyone done anything like this already? not that I recall. That said, you can basically steal the function that reads styles. Should

Re: Debian packaging

2001-01-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Jan-2001 vanRijn wrote: re, all. Actually, I (erm, author of bbkeys) will agree with Cameron on this. bbkeys shouldn't be dependent on qt. I also think that bbkeysconf and bbkeys should be separated into two distinct packages--and that a "strong suggestion" or whatever the debian

Re: Debian packaging

2001-01-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
If that's given, then bbkeys will launch its own configuration program, bbkeysConfigC (written in straight C) inside an xterm, lowering the "external gotta have" from qt2.x to "xterm". Now, I realize that maybe not everybody will have xterm installed on their box, but I think far more

RE: The at simbol.

2001-01-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Jan-2001 Asesino_Virtual wrote: Hi. I cant use my "at" simbol (that used in the email address). I have it on my Q key, and i should do AltGr+Q for typeing, but it doesnt seem to work. Any tips?. your keyboard is set to a different type of keyboard than you have most likely.

Re: [OT] Can BBKeys do this?

2001-01-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:56:07PM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: This was seen on debian-user today, and I wanted to know if anyone had tested this with bbkeys yet... bbkeys simply listens to xkb events and figures out whether it cares or not. I suspect it would take a couple of lines of code,

Re: deb source package for blackbox 0.61.1?

2000-12-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Dec-2000 SATO Satoru wrote: Probablly there are not any blackbox v0.61.1 deb/src for potato avalable, I think. Sato, thanks for the in depth answer before me (-: In general when looking for sources for a deb, the path is: your

RE: different themes on different workspaces

2000-12-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Dec-2000 Robert Davis wrote: Ahoy All BB newbie asks: Can I put different themes on each of my four desk tops? nope, sorry.

Re: [BUG] Re: .blackboxrc unwriteable?

2000-12-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:36:00PM +, j s wrote: While the answers given to this are indeed correct, I think this goes on my list of things I'd like to see fixed. It shouldn't be too hard to stat the file, and when it changes, reload the configuration info. I setup blackbox for a

RE: active backgrounds for Blackbox?

2000-12-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Dec-2000 David W. Talmage wrote: I just discovered something cool about blackbox. If you have xscreensaver installed, then you can put this in a style file: rootCommand: /usr/X11R6/libexec/xscreensaver/flag -root and have it run as your background. I suppose

Re: BBkeys sending windows to other workspaces

2000-12-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:09:37PM +, Dave wrote: One of the things I'd find quite useful is the ability to send a window to the next (or previous) workspace by using a keypress. As far as I can tell, bbkeys can't do this right now but it might be possible to allow this. Since I don't

RE: Xinerama + BB

2000-12-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
So, (when) will real support appear in the CVS? as soon as somone who uses Xinerama and bb make the patch I bet (-:

possible bug in either bb, xlib or xfree 4

2000-11-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Thread reports that if you Alt+right click resize a window and while doing this click the left mouse button, X reacts oddly. Windows do not redraw, etc. I did not see this on my X 3.3.6 workstation at work. I did see this at home where I run XF4's xserver but run bb linked to xlib 3.3.6. So,

Re: possible bug in either bb, xlib or xfree 4

2000-11-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:41:32AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Thread reports that if you Alt+right click resize a window and while doing this click the left mouse button, X reacts oddly. Windows do not redraw, etc. Ok, this is a blackbox bug. How to reproduce it: Alt+right click

Re: possible bug in either bb, xlib or xfree 4

2000-11-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 01:00:38AM +0100, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: The problem occurs when you Alt+Right Click and move the pointer (resizing the window), while doing that left click _and then continue to move again_ thus while holding down both mouse buttons. yes, I realized this, see my

RE: blackbox vs. gimp layer masks

2000-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Nov-2000 Vincent Kraeutler wrote: I have been experiencing a serious problem when trying to use gimp layer masks with blackbox. In order to edit them, one needs to Mod1-Click on the little layer mask icon in the layers dialog, which, in blackbox, simply causes the window to be

Re: New bbpager

2000-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Nov-2000 Mads Martin Joergensen wrote: * jkennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Nov 28. 2000 22:11]: Hello, You can find a new release of bbpager on the bbtools website (bbtools.thlinuxcommunity.org). Only change is a fix for a bug which made bbpager segfault when a window poped up and was

Re: Why do you use blackbox? (Was Desktop names/ Auto unshade)

2000-11-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
A example of my ignorance. Less-than-a-programmer code :-) : On_change_desktop(){ show toolbar; sleep 2; hide toolbar; } Another: On_mouse_over_titlebar(){ if(shaded) unshade_window(); } Ok, there are two new functions. Then someone else says

RE: Generating a menu with a sh script

2000-10-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Nov-2000 antipop wrote: I've been trying to learn shell scripting and had an interesting idea. I have a directory full of backgrounds, and I add each background to my menu so I can switch between them easily. This is a pain in the ass. I was wondering: is it possible to get blackbox

RE: Weird one

2000-10-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Oct-2000 Paul Tomblin wrote: I tried to set up a key to start a mutt window. I put the following into my .bbkeysrc: KeyToGrab(F2), WithModifier(Mod1), WithAction(ExecCommand), DoThis(xterm -sb -e mutt -Z) However, when I hit Alt-F2, I get a window that *says* "mutt" in the title bar,

Re: Weird one

2000-10-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I have been using "mutt -Z" on the command line and in other window managers popup xterms for years. This is not a mutt issue, neither is it my misunderstanding of the command line argument. hmm, I hadnt run mutt in a month, it believed I had plenty of new mail waiting. I wonder if this

bbpager gone wacky?

2000-10-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
bbpager has been dying a LOT lately. Anyone else noticed this? I am running 0.2.9.

RE: Fw: Re: Blackbox 0.61.1 (STABLE) is released!

2000-10-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Oct-2000 Steven Rutter wrote: sorry jeff - meant for this to go to the list and not you --- Forwarded Message --- From: Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jeff Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 18:11:03 -0500 Subject: Re: Blackbox 0.61.1 (STABLE) is released! On

RE: Fw: Re: Blackbox 0.61.1 (STABLE) is released!

2000-10-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Oct-2000 Steven Rutter wrote: I don't like it. Here's what I got attempting to install bbkeys on OpenBSD: /usr/bin/moc gui.hh -o gui.moc /usr/bin/moc: not found *** Error code 1 Stop in /home/steven/Downloads/bbkeys-0.3.5/bbkeysconf-1.2. There's no moc command on my system.

RE: Xinerama?

2000-10-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-Oct-2000 Tore Anderson wrote: Is there Xinerama support in the CVS version of Blackbox? Will there be?` I'd *hate* to switch to E to get proper Xinerama support.. u, Xinerama simply makes X stretch over N monitors. The wm does not have to support it. I have seen people using

RE: Xinerama?

2000-10-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Yes, but if you have different resolutions, eg 1280x1024 and 1024x768, you'll end up with a (1280+1024)x1024 area. You'll have a blank area in the second monitor, and it would be good if the WM didn't put any window over there. Just a thought... I don't know if a WM _should_ deal with

RE: Bus Error from bbmail 0.6.9

2000-10-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Oct-2000 hal King wrote: I'm getting a bus error from bbmail. Solaris BB 0.61. I don't thnik I made any major changes to my system. I logged out then back in and could no longer run bbmail. it is a problem with the Image code. bbkeys just fixed this for itself. Could probably get

RE: Debate

2000-09-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Compile time options also make it difficult to package a piece of software. The person doing the packaging must choose which options fit most people.

RE: Style definition?

2000-09-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Sep-2000 J. Seth Henry wrote: First off, what is the property that defines the color of the *inside* border. Not the outer border, but the border around the contents of the window. For example, I am using the style "Gravity Well", which looks pretty nice. I decide to set the xterms to

Re: Blackbox with 1 mouse button?

2000-09-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:13:24PM -0400, Jeff Raven wrote: There is something to be said for uniformity in interface... once upon a time I had to accounts, one which had it's WM set up so that left-click on root brought up the root menu and one on which right-click did. Drove the people

RE: bbkey focus ignore feature

2000-09-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Sep-2000 hal king wrote: Thanks to Nathan Clemons I'm up and running in 61.0! Solaris folks read the 24_BPP_README_NOW with the pkgs! Now to the window shopping. I haven't dug into the code, but OO right? So does each window have a name that all the others _could_ recognize?

RE: blackbox 0.61 arrow keys

2000-08-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Aug-2000 Matt Dunford wrote: I upgraded to 0.61 and now Ctrl+arrow key no longer switches between workspaces. Is there a quick fix for this? you have to install the package bbkeys.

RE: blackbox 0.61 arrow keys

2000-08-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I don't remember installing bbkeys for 0.51. Is this a newly introduced dependency or am I just suffering from a fuzzy memory? nope, 0.60+ no longer supports key bindings internally. Believe it covers this in the README and on the web page somewhere.

Re: Yet Another Feature Suggestion

2000-08-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Aug-2000 Ben Tracy wrote: Kim- Blackbox will probably never mainline this kind of change as it is the kind of feature bloat that it aims to avoid. However, I would imagine it wouldn't be too hard to make a small bb-app along the lines of bbkeys to do such a thing... Some bb

RE: Yet Another Feature Suggestion

2000-08-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Aug-2000 Kim Nørgaard wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it would be a good idea to make blackbox being able to support different backgrounds on different desktops. I have personally used this feature in other WM's, and found it pretty usefull when having many desktops. What do you

errors in blackbox man page

2000-08-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
The man page states that the correct directory is ~/.blackbox/Styles. This was recently changed to be styles (no captial 'S').

Re: converting themes

2000-08-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 02:52:47PM -0400, Derek Cunningham wrote: if you could send me a copy of a 0.5x theme... i could churn out a perl script that would modify it to a 0.6x theme... there are plenty of them on http://bb.themes.org still.

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