On Tue, Apr02,02 14:38, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > I've only been using blackbox for a few months, but it is certainly my > favorite WM in the more than two years I've been using Linux. My only beef > with it so far is the slit... and not so much how it looks or works, but how > programs are loaded into it. > > I've searched through the archives, and seen the hacks people have done to > get dockapps, bbtools, and whatnot to load in a specified order, and to date > I have been unable to get 100% compliance on my machine. About 1 in 4 times > or more, the apps I load into it come in a randy order. > > I saw somewhere, when I was first trying out blackbox, a little application > somebody had written to insure that apps came in in the appropriate order... > but since I didn't know what that meant at the time, I ignored it and > promptly lost the URL. > > I've tried hacks like: > bbrun & > sleep 1 && bbpager & > sleep 1 && wmusic & > etc., but these are not consistent. > > Any _other_ ideas anyone? >
bbrun & sleep 1 && bbpager & sleep 3 && wmusic & ... This gives bbpager enough time to load first, then wmusic, and then any other apps after that. DC -- Derek Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives" -- Abba Eban Registered Linux User Number 195825
