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Title: installing BlackBox
Post by: Master of Reality on 28 June 2002, 05:02

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 ]

Title: installing BlackBox
Post by: choasforages on 28 June 2002, 07:39

are you using kdm or gdm

Title: installing BlackBox
Post by: Master of Reality on 28 June 2002, 08:10

uhhh.....?

Title: installing BlackBox
Post by: KernelPanic on 28 June 2002, 20:44

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

Title: installing BlackBox
Post by: Master of Reality on 28 June 2002, 20:46

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

Title: installing BlackBox
Post by: voidmain on 28 June 2002, 21:17

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 ]

Title: installing BlackBox
Post by: Master of Reality on 28 June 2002, 22:11

I am using KDM.

Title: installing BlackBox
Post by: choasforages on 28 June 2002, 22:29

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

Title: installing BlackBox
Post by: Master of Reality on 28 June 2002, 22:47

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 ]

Title: installing BlackBox
Post by: choasforages on 28 June 2002, 23:14

and thats were my knowledge of blackbox and friends ends.

Title: installing BlackBox
Post by: choasforages on 28 June 2002, 23:38

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


bbconf program (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbconf/)

Title: installing BlackBox
Post by: Master of Reality on 29 June 2002, 00:24

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

Title: installing BlackBox
Post by: voidmain on 29 June 2002, 05:13

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.