I think your problem is that you aren't forking the processes into the background in your .xinitrc.
it should be something like this: bbweather & blackbox and that should work fine. On Fri, Apr26,02 12:50, Kit O'Connell wrote: > I recently broke myself of my attachment to KDE applets, so I am now able > to use the most recent version of blackbox. I have just built from the > most recent cvs files. > > If I start blackbox with either wmWeather or bbweather running, blackbox > does not load properly. Instead of getting all the way in, I get to a grey > screen with a mouse pointer. The various applets seem to load, but they > all sit in piles in the corners of the screen because the slit never > appears. I am not able to call up a menu, and have to use ^C to kill > xwindows. If I remove the weather applets from my .xinitrc, blackbox loads > fine. > > I haven't had this problem before. If I load wmWeather or bbweather from > an xterm command line after blackbox loads, I don't have any problems with > it. This is a pretty weird problem. Any light you can shed on it will be > appreciated. > > Cheers, > Kit > > 'Dreams aren't dangerous, or thrilling, until we think of them as real > possibilities.' -Jonathon Carroll, _Sleeping in Flame_ > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.dreamspeakers.net > PGP public key: http://www.dreamspeakers.net/me/pubkey.html -- Derek Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives" -- Abba Eban Registered Linux User Number 195825
