I apologize. This is a test. the list has
been throwing errors at me.
Personally, i really like Mozilla's email client.
I used to use Kmail, and i really liked it. but after
trying to upgrade a few things using RPMs, half of
KDE stopped working because of dependancy issues...
i *hate* RPMs. it's nearly impossible for me to upgrade
anything w/o having a whole
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 08:49:08PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
I'm starting with the simple looking items. To remove the
current workspace from the window menu, the workspace needs
to be identified by some other data than the index into the
menu. In C I'd just put a
Paul Mackinney wrote:
That's the only reason it's on my box. I run Debian, so I just install
with
apt-get install gnome-terminal
Can anyone suggest a good Debian resource where i could
see the differences between Deb and Redhat? I've been
a redhat user for a few years now and am
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
1) his domain name is tame
2) you have to wander around his site
3) he very clearly explains what is there and why, giving you the chance to not
see it
I have no problem with linking to his blackbox page.
Scott, it is your site. If anything some would feel
This happens with 0.62.1. I do not know if this has been
fixed in the most recent alpha (i will be installing it
later tonight to find out), so i apologize if this is old
news.
i was toying around with the slit, and noticed that if i
threw a large dockapp in there, it would bump up above the
I just grabbed the CVS (May 23, 7:30PM) and the overlap is
still happening.
Screenshots:
http://furt.com/blackbox/wmswallow-before.jpg
http://furt.com/blackbox/wmswallow-after.jpg
I'll post this to the tracker if it's a legit bug.
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 23-May-2002 Scott Furt wrote
I was playing around with snapping today (I'm running CVS
from 05/23), and noticed that windows will snap to the edge
of the slit, even if the window is nowhere near the slit.
This might be somewhat related to the XMMS-snapping problem
that was reported a while back.
Screenshot:
Another good GUI unzip/zip tool is the ROX Archive tool.
It's an icon on the desktop, and you drag files or archive
onto it and it tgz/un-tgz things.
http://rox.sf.net/archive.php3
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I am using cxunzip (a GNOME unzip tool); if I kill it or properly exit it,
it closes
When i resize/move windows now, the little box that
shows X: ... Y: ... looks like it inheirits the background
image from my desktop, which is unfortunate, becuase
black text on a dark background is near impossible to read.
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 24-May-2002 Scott Furt wrote:
When i resize/move windows now, the little box that
shows X: ... Y: ... looks like it inheirits the background
image from my desktop, which is unfortunate, becuase
black text on a dark background is near impossible to read.
cvs
Es Bee Ex wrote:
On Sat, 25 May 2002 20:30:20 +0100 Martin Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
1. Is there a graphical app launcher that people recommend.
ROX is a nice set of applications that together provide a FAST graphical
desktop. I just use the ROX-Filer, but there is also an icon
Hello, i'm running blackbox a7, and i noticed a few oddities
when dragging shaded windows around with the mouse:
With freshly-shaded windows, dragging by the titlebar is fine.
However, with some windows that have been shaded for a while,
when i grab the titlebar to drag them, an outline box
If anyone's interested, i posted up a few new styles that
i did this weekend.
Shots (links to download are on the page next to the thumbnail)
http://furt.com/screenshots/index.php?only=blackbox_styles
Broken-down directory structure:
http://furt.com/blackbox/styles/
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 28-May-2002 Scott Furt wrote:
If anyone's interested, i posted up a few new styles that
i did this weekend.
Shots (links to download are on the page next to the thumbnail)
http://furt.com/screenshots/index.php?only=blackbox_styles
Broken-down directory structure
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Very strange, i created with bbconf 1.4 and am running blackbox a7
(from cvs 05/25). i also have bsetbg 1.12
Was it any specific styles that gave you prob's?
I grabbed clouded mind (I have a thing for blue themes).
The more I look at this the more I think it
xOr wrote:
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 07:19:30PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 28-May-2002 Scott Furt wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Very strange, i created with bbconf 1.4 and am running blackbox a7
(from cvs 05/25). i also have bsetbg 1.12
Was it any specific styles that gave you
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
The more I look at this the more I think it is a color map issue. What res
do
you run in?
1152x864
color depth: 16
1280x960 16 here. Most odd. Looking into this some more.
When I load bbconf 1.6 up and try to load your style all of the colors show
up
as black.
I remember there was discussion about transient windows
that were created/destroyed very quickly hanging around.
I just experienced this with ROX. I was copying a very
small text file to a sub-dir, and the Copying... window
seems to have hung around as Unnamed. All efforts at
killing the
Es Bee Ex wrote:
On Thu, 30 May 2002 02:51:24 +0200
Øyvind Stegard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a simple feature request:
How about an option that will keep maximised windows locked in position
so that they cannot be accidentally moved ?
This is an idea I had too, but two other, more
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 11:08:35PM -0300, Saruman wrote:
Can I put icons on Desktop, like gnome or kde???
if possible, how?
Nope! Isn't it WONDERFUL?
Now... a question. Why does everyone try and turn blackbox into something
else? If you want like Gnome or KDE,
mikshaw wrote:
True, but it seems many folks won't put themselves into a position to deal with it
at all when they
see all these 0.x versions. When i first started researching open source projects a
couple years
ago, I thought What the heck? Does no one have a stable program finished?
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 05-Jun-2002 dan radom wrote:
it sure seems like people are somewhat passionate about their window shading
and placement prefreences. sounds like a toggleable config option would
please everyone :)
more to the point, no matter what we change there will
I've got a feature request for the post-65 series
(since i know there's a feature freeze in effect now)
Is there any feasable way that torn-off menus could somehow
be made to stay open after a selection is made? IMO, this
would add much more consistency to the way menus work.
At least to me,
Jamin W. Collins wrote:
On 06 Jun 2002 23:24:54 +1200
Matt Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oooh... sounds like a bug to me. Mine hang around, like I believe
they're supposed to...
Mine hang around too. Maybe he's behind on his adhesive bill?
What the hell is wrong with me this
I noticed that it only happens to me if i try and run
OO from the BB menu when i first get into BB, with no
other windows open.
If i open up ROX and click on a document, OO will come
up no problem. If i then close all windows and run OO
from the BB menu, no problem.
Occasionally, OO will bring
Stijn Hoop wrote:
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:08:01AM +0930, Tim Riley wrote:
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:33:34AM -0500, xOr wrote:
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:47:26PM +0930, Tim Riley wrote:
Imho, for this sort of bog standard window behaviour, a sane default
should be picked, and kept.
Tim Riley wrote:
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:08:24AM -0400, Scott Furt wrote:
The whole linux philosophy is to give configurability, even
at the cost of being a bit cryptic at times. :-)
Is that so? What about the 'usability' philosophy? ;)
For me, the configurability helps make
Sam Halliday wrote:
put everything you want into a file, say ~/bin/startbb.
Then put exec ~/bin/startbb into your .xinitrc - bam, same thing as
exec starkde, exec wmaker, exec gnome-session whaterver.
but that achieves nothing... i dont like putting anything into
an xinitrc file, i like to
Jan Schaumann wrote:
Sam Halliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about making a startbb script and then running that from .xinitrc
i want to rid the .xinitrc startup usgae in the first place
How are you planning on doing this? AFAIK, you gotta have a .xinitrc
(unless you make blackbox
I found this link today, seems that Blackbox is the
default WM of this project, pretty cool:
http://intimate.handhelds.org/
he's got some pretty cool screenshots too :)
I've found something in BB beta1,
Open up a window on a blank workspace, then ALT+Mid-click
inside the window, and while holding down the ALT+mouse,
move over to the bottom right handle.
Watch as the resize icon pops up. But what's weird is
that moving the mouse to the bottom of the handle
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
It is a little ugly, will see about cleaning it up.
The issue was a loose check on the bit masks. Cleaned up. Let me know if
there are further complaints.
If developer of the year awards are ever held, you're
certainly my first choice :)
Awesome job, thanks
Es Bee Ex wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:42:12 -0400
Jan Schaumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Below find the complete Blackbox-HOWTO. It contains all the information
anybody might need to know to use BB:
1. How do I have other applications start up when I start blackbox?
Enter them into you
Brandon Thigpen wrote:
What I would like to see the most is the ability to bind keys to pop
up the root menu, and be able to move around in it using the vi keys
(j,k,l,etc). I also use Alt+Tab for window switching, and have set
up bbkeys to start some programs I use often:
Alt+x =
Derek Cunningham wrote:
On Thu, Jul11,02 16:39, Gerrit Hoetzel wrote:
What I WOULD like to see is an emacs-like ability to string characters
together. ie: CTRL+Z+R will perform some action, and CTRL+Z+T will perform
some other action. Think that's doable?
Or maybe distinguish sth. like vi's
Es Bee Ex wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 18:13:04 -0400
Scott Furt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Derek Cunningham wrote:
On Thu, Jul11,02 16:39, Gerrit Hoetzel wrote:
What I WOULD like to see is an emacs-like ability to string characters
together. ie: CTRL+Z+R will perform some action, and CTRL+Z
Matt Wilson wrote:
How many people don't use keybindings? Would it be worthwhile to integrate
keybindings back into BB? It seems to me that it wouldn't create that much
more overhead - you'd have one less app running - and would have much more
potential for things like menu manipulation...
I'm not familiar with X programming, so please bear
with me when i ask this question :-)
Is there anyway to send an event/atom/whatever to the
root window to say hey buddy, someone right-clicked
on you, handle it ??
I'm thinking that if it is possible, a simple app.
could be written and called
To whoever out there has the time/permission to make
changes to the blackboxwm.sf.net page, could you please
update my link on the screenshots page to be:
Scott Hurring http://hurring.com/screenshots/blackbox/
I mostly have screenshots of different styles that
i either created or really like --
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