On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:32:06PM -0500, Benjamin Bunck wrote: > > Is it possible to associate a custom menu to a particular style? > > Well, not directly, but you could make the rootCommand in the style a shell > script that would alter the menu file. Blackbox is smart enough to > recognize the change and update on-on-the-fly. > > There have also been several different shell scripts posted to the list > that do things like make a menu of images to apply to the background, and > things like that. Those also operate in real-time, so you could probably > create something that was smart enough to read the rc file and make a > decision based on the script, then modify itself. > > If it were me, I'd write something for rootCommand that took two > arguments... the image I wanted to put on the root window, and the name of > the menu file. I'd use bsetbg to set the root window, and then probably > symlink my chosen menu file to a generic name that'd appear in > ~/.blackboxrc, so that I didn't have to edit the rc file in real-time. >
I like this idea. I guess it never occured to me that rootCommand could run an arbitrary script. The main reason I want this is just so I can associate specific aterm backgrounds, xmms skins, etc...with particular style files. Purely cosmetic. Thanks, Ben > Of course, you could always use sed and do exactly that, if you felt the > need. > >
