installing BlackBox

[Master of Reality]

I just dled and compiled blackbox.What do i need to do to get it to be an option to load at my login thingy??

[ June 27, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[choasforages]

are you using kdm or gdm

[Master of Reality]

uhhh.....?

[KernelPanic]

KDE desktop manager, Gnome Desktop manager.
I think... Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Master of Reality]

hmmmmmmmmmmm.... How would i check?
I have a crippled version of gnome and KDE on my comp.

[voidmain]

Look in /etc/sysconfig/desktop file.  If "DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE" is set it will use "kdm" and if "DISPLAYMANAGER=GNOME" is set it will use "gdm".  If you change that, you will have to restart X for it to take effect.

The "/etc/X11/prefdm" script looks in that "desktop" file and starts the appropriate display manager (graphical login). Take a look at the script, it's pretty simple.

[ June 28, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[Master of Reality]

I am using KDM.

[choasforages]

same as i am, redhat something right or whatever, heres how i did it

ok, now that it is installed goto
/usr/share/apps/switchdesk

then make a file called

Xclients.blackbox

then put this into the file

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/blackbox

after that

chmod +x Xclients.blackbox /*another 15 minutes of frustion figured that one out*/

the goto
/etc/kde/kdm

use your favorite text editor on the kdmrc file
there should be a line that says

SessionTypes=

put a comma at the end of that line and type in blackbox
save it and log out and try to use blackbox, you should be able to

[Master of Reality]

blackbox is hella-fast. How do i edit the menu in it though? I need to add mozilla to it. And how do i change the background?
How do i take a screenshot in BlackBox?

[ June 28, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[choasforages]

and thats were my knowledge of blackbox and friends ends.

[choasforages]

hahaha, i just found a config program for blackbox, i don't know if it works but have fun


bbconf program

[Master of Reality]

no where near as good as the control panel in KDE, but its still goodish

[voidmain]

Blackbox supports KDE calls does it not? Can't you use ksnapshot?  Otherwise there's always "xwd" which should work for any window manager, but it's a command line utility.