Smart Placement (was Re: Dums core on nonexistent menufile?)

2001-12-17 Thread Derek Cunningham
Sean, Will you be adding the new smart placement code to the new blackbox before 61.2 is released? There was talk of some new code being developed... DC On Sun, Dec16,01 10:04, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 16-Dec-2001 xOr wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 10:51:40PM +0100, Geir Torstein

Re: Smart Placement (was Re: Dums core on nonexistent menufile?)

2001-12-17 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Mon, Dec17,01 08:19, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 08:08, Derek Cunningham wrote: Will you be adding the new smart placement code to the new blackbox before 61.2 is released? There was talk of some new code being developed... I believe this is referring to the code that

Mailing list archive

2001-12-17 Thread Joe MacDonald
Hi folks, I was looking around at the Blackbox website and didn't see anything about mailing list archives being kept anywhere. Are they? And is there a new version somehwere? The last version I saw had Oct 2000 timestamps (0.61.1, I think), but I was looking at http://blackbox.alug.org.

Re: Mailing list archive

2001-12-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 09:06, Joe MacDonald wrote: I was looking around at the Blackbox website and didn't see anything about mailing list archives being kept anywhere. Are they? And is there a new version somehwere? The last version I saw had Oct 2000 timestamps (0.61.1, I think), but I

Re: Mailing list archive

2001-12-17 Thread xOr
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:06:09AM -0500, Joe MacDonald wrote: Hi folks, I was looking around at the Blackbox website and didn't see anything about mailing list archives being kept anywhere. Are they? And is there a new version somehwere? The last version I saw had Oct 2000 timestamps

Re: Key grabber

2001-12-17 Thread Derek Cunningham
What features does this have over bbkeys that makes you want to use it? DC PS: a webpage would be nice outlining this stuff. :) On Sat, Dec15,01 15:19, Scott Moynes wrote: I've written a keygrabber that fits my needs better than bbkeys. It borrows from bbkeys, but is still quite different.

Re: Key grabber

2001-12-17 Thread Scott Moynes
* Derek Cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What features does this have over bbkeys that makes you want to use it? Well, as someone pointed out to me, it uses 300k less RAM to do basically the same thing. The reason I wrote it was because I didn't need a lot of what bbkeys offered, and found

Re: crashing BB, freezing computer

2001-12-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Dec-2001 Will Macdonald wrote: Hi, I have been using black box for years and love it. However on my current system, Mandrake 8.1, X 4.1 I have run into a very serious problem. I tried installing a Style (bluesilver) from themes.org which used an artwiz font, mint I think it is

Re: Mailing list archive

2001-12-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Incedentally, while I'm asking questions that are easily answered by reading, has anyone addressed any gnome integration issues with BB? The last time I used it, it didn't want to play nicely with gnome, but that was about a year ago. bb will be moving to the NET WM spec which both KDE

Re: Key grabber

2001-12-17 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Mon, Dec17,01 13:10, Scott Moynes wrote: * Derek Cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What features does this have over bbkeys that makes you want to use it? Well, as someone pointed out to me, it uses 300k less RAM to do basically the same thing. The reason I wrote it was because I

Re: Key grabber

2001-12-17 Thread Scott Moynes
* Derek Cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: *drool* as you know (from prev discussions) I want chained grabbing... emacs-style! :) I've got 512M of ram... so memory usage just doesn't concern me... and I'm more than happy to run multiple keygrabbers. :) Stay tooned! hmm... that's truely

Re: Key grabber

2001-12-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
From another message today, I see Sean says it wouldn't be too hard to add WM spec to blackbox. I am axiously looking forward to this, and would be elated if only the easy ones were added. :) Actually, I'll be happy if I don't have to wait another year for the next stable release. :)) I

window resize bug with 0.61.2pre6?

2001-12-17 Thread Chris Gilbreth
I'm experiencing wierd behaviour with 0.61.2.pre6 when I try to resize a window by actually grabbing the corner of the window rather than by using alt+rightclick. Can anyone reproduce this? I'll post more if you can't. --- When there is love, self is not. -Krishnamurti

Re: window resize bug with 0.61.2pre6?

2001-12-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Dec-2001 Chris Gilbreth wrote: I'm experiencing wierd behaviour with 0.61.2.pre6 when I try to resize a window by actually grabbing the corner of the window rather than by using alt+rightclick. Can anyone reproduce this? I'll post more if you can't. yeah, xOr's patch was not happy,

blackbox + bash aliases

2001-12-17 Thread Lev Lvovsky
is there any way to expand blackbox shell commands to bash (or other shell) aliases in the blackbox menu? or better yet, is there a method to use variables inside the menus, to define a command that might be long, but is often used (my xterm settings)? thanks! -lev

Re: blackbox + bash aliases

2001-12-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 19:33, Lev Lvovsky wrote: is there any way to expand blackbox shell commands to bash (or other shell) aliases in the blackbox menu? or better yet, is there a method to use variables inside the menus, to define a command that might be long, but is often used (my xterm

Re: blackbox + bash aliases

2001-12-17 Thread Lev Lvovsky
gah, not two minutes after I replied personally about not understanding, I figured it out... brilliant! thank you On 17 Dec 2001, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 19:33, Lev Lvovsky wrote: is there any way to expand blackbox shell commands to bash (or other shell) aliases in

Re: blackbox + bash aliases

2001-12-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 19:58, Lev Lvovsky wrote: gah, not two minutes after I replied personally about not understanding, I figured it out... brilliant! Don't thank me. I over-looked it. Not exactly sure how, but I did. The following people deserve the thanks: James Robinson Scott Moynes