Re: alpha6 released
I use wmswallow and aterm together to get a little terminal in the slit. here's the lines from my .xinitrc: aterm -sh 60 -tr -ls -fn 6x10 -g 10x6 -cr green -fg green +sb -name dockterm& /usr/local/bin/wmswallow -focus -geom 64x64 dockterm& used to work great, but at least in alpha4 and alpha6, the wmswallow thinks it has swallowed aterm, but the aterm is still floating around as a regular window, with decorations and all. there is a white square in the slit where the aterm should be. if i change to another workspace and put the mouse in the white square, wmswallow crashes with this message: X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 42 (X_SetInputFocus) Serial number of failed request: 310 Current serial number in output stream: 310 I tried alpha6 since there was some slit tweaking, but it didn't fix it. in alpha6 i got a new problem: bbmail shows up on the opposite side of the screen from my slit! it shows up on all desktops, just away from the slit. if i bring up the bbmail menu by right-clicking on the envelope, the menu pops up where you would expect it to be if bbmail was actually in the slit. i run bbmail like this: ssh ocotillo /usr/local/bin/bbmail -w (my mail comes in on ocotillo and i display it remotely on my workstation) let me know if you need more details On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:12:25PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > To fix the simple coding error in alpha5 I have released alpha6. > > The only difference is a change to the way a container is accessed so if you > have alpha5 and it compiles don't sweat it.
Re: new cvs release up
oh, ok. I see. On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:46:49AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 05-Apr-2002 Kevin Geiss wrote: > > woah, hold up there. I can get windows larger than the screen size. > > > > max_width (or height) is reset if the client sets them (which if you do -geom > XX YY happens).
Re: new cvs release up
woah, hold up there. I can get windows larger than the screen size. gqview is an image viewer that can be told to remember its geometry. next time it starts up, it will be the same size as it was last time. my desktop machine runs X at 1168x864, but my laptop is 1024x768. if i run a gqview from my desktop but display it on my laptop, it is larger than the screen. I assume if i copied the .gqviewrc file from my desktop to my laptop and ran it locally i would get the same behavior but haven't tested that. On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:53:08AM -0600, xOr wrote: > blackbox has never allowed windows bigger than the screen area. I assume > it now enforces this with the availableArea()..? > > xOr > -- > I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
Re: new cvs release up
I noticed something new in this release which i love! I often middle click on a link in mozilla to bring up the link in a new browser window. previously, the new mozilla window would pop up slightly to the right and lower than the old window. since the window is the right size to fill the screen except for the slit and the toolbar, this had the tragic effect of covering the toolbar and about 2/3 of the slit. So i was forced to develop the unfortunate habit of moving the new mozilla window by mouse back on top of the old window. but in this new version, the new window is placed within a pixel or two of the old, and there is no longer any need for me to move it by hand! what a nice breath of fresh air! one less tedious mouse operation! excellent work! On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:22:58PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > For those of you not hitting the site every day. > > http://sf.net/projects/blackboxwm
Re: slit functionality...
check out xtoolwait! here's my .xinitrc. it takes the dockapps a little longer to start up, but i don't have to fiddle with sleeps, and they always start in the correct order. non-slit programs start up immediately, so blackbox and my xterm are up immediately, so i can be typing while the last couple dockapps come up. #!/bin/bash host=`hostname -s` xhost + $HOME/progs/perl/xmodmap_kludge ~/.dvorak | xmodmap - /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 223 = F30" # Sleep key /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 165 = F33" # calculator key /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym Super_L = Meta_L Super_L" /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym Super_R = Meta_R Super_R" $HOME/progs/perl/t n _logged in xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults xtoolwait='/usr/X11R6/bin/xtoolwait -timeout 1' export QT_XFT="true" if [[ $host == raven ]]; then export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libgdkxft.so" fi # # Startup the window manager first # /usr/local/bin/blackbox & wmpid=$! $xtoolwait -mappings 2 bbkeys -t # # Do _not_ put xtoolwait in the background # xtoolwait xterm -j -fa 'nimbus mono' -ls -g 80x24+0-16 -bg black -bd red -cr yellow -fg yellow -sb -sl 5000 +ah -name Run $xtoolwait bbappconf -d $xtoolwait lavaps $xtoolwait wmmon $xtoolwait asmon $xtoolwait wmfire -L1 -s -B0 if [[ $host == raven ]]; then $xtoolwait wmgtemp -s fahrenheit -g block -M 45 fi $xtoolwait aterm -sh 60 -tr -ls -fn 6x10 -g 10x6 -cr green -fg green +sb -name dockterm $xtoolwait /usr/local/bin/wmswallow -focus -geom 64x64 dockterm $xtoolwait wmnet -w -t blue -r red -x 1000 -l -W eth0 $xtoolwait asclock -theme $HOME/.asclock/Freeamp -d -12 -noblink $xtoolwait wmMoonClock -lat 33.40133 -lon 111.55625 $xtoolwait wmSun -lat 33.40 -lon 111.556 $xtoolwait $HOME/scripts/keys if [[ $host == raven ]]; then $xtoolwait ssh ocotillo /usr/local/bin/bbmail -w else $xtoolwait bbmail -w fi xset m 20/10 4 s 0 dpms 300 1200 1500 wait $wmpid On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:38:40PM -0500, 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? > > Thanks, > Matthew
Re: call for content
i have some screenshots at http://www.desertsol.com/~kevin/screens
