Todd Slater wrote: >On Sun, 05 May 2002 13:06:36 +0100 >Graham Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I've recently started checking out the lighter window managers - >>especially Blackbox and IceWM. On the whole pretty impressive but I am >>having one or two difficulties that I hope someone out there will be >>able to help me with: >> ><snip don't know IceWM> > >>2. >>I've added items to the menu, using Menudrake, but they don't >>come up in the Blackbox or IceWM menus. Why should this be and >>can I do anything about it? >> > >In Blackbox, you have to edit the Menu file. This is located in >~/.blackbox. It is very simple to edit, just looking at the file you will >see what you need to do. If not, "man blackbox" will give more >explanation. > >>3. >>How does one change the background for Blackbox? >> > >bsetroot or bsetbg. One or both of these should be on your system. >bsetroot has a man page. The Blackbox man page has a good description of >how to create themes, which also talks about backgrounds (like if you want >a solid color, gradient, or pattern instead of an image). > >>That's probably enough to be going on with. Please point me in the >>right direction if you can. I am using Mandrake 7.2. >> > >I hope what I'm telling you is the same for 7.2 as for 8.1! > >HTH, >Todd > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Well, editing the local menu file is a way to break compatibility. The menu editor will make blackbox changes too, just look at the GUI screen it offers...
There you will see a checkbox for KDE or all or GNOME or all. Or look at the raw menufile entry--here are a couple of examples ?package(aumix): needs="x11" \ section="Multimedia/Sound" \ title="Aumix" \ longtitle="Audio Mixer" \ command="aumix" \ icon="sound_section.png" That file shows on all menus ?package(gnome-control-center): command="/usr/bin/gnomecc" icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/control-center.png" longtitle="The Gnome configuration tool" title="Gnome Control Center" needs=gnome section="Configuration/Gnome" The second one shows only on gnome. The menu editor on 7.2 to use is menudrake, NOT KMenuEdit, where entries will vanish. There are a couple of caveats. 7.1 used integrated desktop enus for the first time and had no editor so people had to make these menu files by hand. 7.2 had a menu editor called menudrake; however, it wasn't protected from user impatience. When one did a save, in the lower left hand corner of the window it said (saving...) And finally the message would change to indicate completion. But no ShowBusyCursor was implemented to lock out a user's quitting early, with a result of corrupted menu files. Now the menu editor also make changes either to local or to system. local changes were kept in /home/username or /root if root was editing. After running menu editor, it was a good idea to run, as root update-menus -v and hit the enter key after the last line of executing menu-methods. Civileme
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