Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Dec-2001 Mark Weinem wrote: >> However a kneejerk reaction >> of "that will just make it bigger and there are other ways to do it" need to >> be >> avoided. > > Not a "kneejerk reaction" but just good arguments. What's wrong with > them? > > And many bb users will not want confirmation d

BUG? bb leaves open file descriptors.

2001-12-11 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Hi all, When switching styles, it seems that Blackbox opens new files for the directories /usr/share/Blackbox/styles and /home/wilbert/.blackbox/styles, without closing the old ones. When switching very often blackbox's memory footprint grows considerably, and you can see the open files in a pro

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 00:04, Jan Schaumann wrote: > Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:27:55PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:53:26PM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > > > > I am looking for GUI e-mail clients that work well with Blackbox

Re: BUG? bb leaves open file descriptors.

2001-12-11 Thread Erik Jan Tromp
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:51:12 +0100 (CET) Wilbert Berendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When switching styles, it seems that Blackbox opens new files for the > directories /usr/share/Blackbox/styles and /home/wilbert/.blackbox/styles, > without closing the old ones. > > When switching very often

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Jan Schaumann
"Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I too am looking for a good mail client for my Linux systems. I've been > using the following as my requirements list: > > - FULL RFC compliance > - Complete IMAP4rv1 support > - Complete POP3 support > - Small memory footprint > - Usable at 640x

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 08:39, Jan Schaumann wrote: > Mutt. :) Not using IMAP, I'm not sure how well implemented it is, but > maybe http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/ can help you. =), that's the exact document that lead me to my statement that Mutt doesn't fully support IMAP. Note: (found at the

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Christian Dysthe
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:27:55 -0800 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:53:26PM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > > I am looking for GUI e-mail clients that work well with > > Blackbox. I was away from Linux for a while. I am back now on Blackbox. Something hasn't cha

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread moe
On 10 Dec, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > I am looking for GUI e-mail clients that work well with Blackbox. I > have GTK installed, but I don't want to install the whole GNOME or KDE > shooting match. > > Suggestions? > Jeffrey you definately want to look at tkrat: http://www.tkrat.org it took me a

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Paul Kincaid
Wow, I never meant to cause such a firestorm! I never wanted to change the default behavior of BB, just wanted to see if there were any alternatives. How about this for a solution - kind of a combination of things that have been mentioned by others --- Is there a way to remove the default "Exit

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Scott Moynes
* Christian Dysthe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Linux really needs good robust GUI software, especially an e-mail > client. Linux needs nothing. Linux is a kernel. People who use Linux and can't wrap their head around the concept of using something textual to display something textual need someo

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Peter Peltonen
I've been using Sylpheed a few days now and have been very happy with it. Ximian's Evolution is quite nice too, but it is a bit unstable (my friend told me that it has frozen his X a few times). Cheers, Peter

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 21:20, Paul Kincaid wrote: > Is there a way to remove the default "Exit" from the Menu? Yea, just remove the entry from your menu file. Jamin W. Collins

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Christian Dysthe
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:08:56 -0500 Scott Moynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linux needs nothing. Linux is a kernel. Ok, I will be more specific: *If* it is a goal to have more people use the OS based on the Linux kernel in their day to day business and private computing, good GUI based softwar

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Jan Schaumann
Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:27:55 -0800 > Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:53:26PM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > > > I am looking for GUI e-mail clients that work well with > > > Blackbox. > > I was away from Linux

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Eric Christian Carlsen
Along with the confirmation exit issue I have another question. Is it possible to set up a way to exit using the keyboard? Is there any command in bbkeys that will do this or any other way of going about it? Just thought I would ask Eric Carlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

call for patches

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
So, 0.61.2 is almost ready to be released screaming into the world. If anyone has a patch floating around that fixes some problem I would love to hear about it. The recent open file descriptor bug shows how much the community has depended on the memory of this list to find bugs.

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Scott Moynes
* Christian Dysthe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok, I will be more specific: *If* it is a goal to have more people > use the OS based on the Linux kernel in their day to day business > and private computing, good GUI based software is/will be needed. Whose goal? You claim that GUI software is nee

Upcoming 0.61.2 realease (was: call for patches)

2001-12-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:34, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > So, 0.61.2 is almost ready to be released screaming into the world. If anyone > has a patch floating around that fixes some problem I would love to hear about > it. The recent open file descriptor bug shows how much the community has > de

Re: Upcoming 0.61.2 realease (was: call for patches)

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Dec-2001 Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:34, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> So, 0.61.2 is almost ready to be released screaming into the world. If >> anyone >> has a patch floating around that fixes some problem I would love to hear >> about >> it. The recent open file de

Re: call for patches

2001-12-11 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Tue, Dec11,01 08:34, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > So, 0.61.2 is almost ready to be released screaming into the world. If anyone > has a patch floating around that fixes some problem I would love to hear about > it. > The recent open file descriptor bug shows how much the community has > de

Re: Upcoming 0.61.2 realease (was: call for patches)

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Changes from 0.61.1 to 0.61.2: > - added the ja_JP nls directory > - general code cleanups > - blackbox-nls.hh is always generated even if --disable-nls is used. > This allows us to not have all of those hideous #ifdef NLS chunks. > Nothing to worry about, if you do not want NLS

Re: call for patches

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Dec-2001 Derek Cunningham wrote: > On Tue, Dec11,01 08:34, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> So, 0.61.2 is almost ready to be released screaming into the world. If >> anyone >> has a patch floating around that fixes some problem I would love to hear >> about >> it. > > >> The recent open fi

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Jan Schaumann
Eric Christian Carlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Along with the confirmation exit issue I have another question. Is it > possible to set up a way to exit using the keyboard? Is there any > command in bbkeys that will do this or any other way of going about > it? Just thought I would ask [jscha

Re: Upcoming 0.61.2 realease (was: call for patches)

2001-12-11 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Tue, Dec11,01 09:01, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > Changes from 0.61.1 to 0.61.2: > > - added the ja_JP nls directory > > - general code cleanups > > - blackbox-nls.hh is always generated even if --disable-nls is used. > > This allows us to not have all of those hideous #ifdef N

Re: Upcoming 0.61.2 realease (was: call for patches)

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > What about the workspace change bugs? And has there been any devel on the > smart placement changes? > What workspace bugs? placeWindow() is the smart placement code. What else was supposed to happen there?

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Christian Dysthe
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:48:28 -0500 Scott Moynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whose goal? You claim that GUI software is needed, presumably by > someone, but offer no solutions to the most important problem: Who > is going to write it? I, for one, am not going to sacrifice my > time, and perhaps m

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Tim Keating
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Eric Christian Carlsen wrote: > Along with the confirmation exit issue I have another question. Is it > possible to set up a way to exit using the keyboard? CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is the default keyboard shortcut to exit The X Window system. Seems to work with every window

Re: Upcoming 0.61.2 realease (was: call for patches)

2001-12-11 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Tue, Dec11,01 09:12, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > What about the workspace change bugs? And has there been any devel on the > > smart placement changes? > > > > What workspace bugs? > > placeWindow() is the smart placement code. What else was supposed to happen > there? Well... I've

Re: Upcoming 0.61.2 realease (was: call for patches)

2001-12-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 11:30, Derek Cunningham wrote: > On Tue, Dec11,01 09:12, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > What workspace bugs? > > > > placeWindow() is the smart placement code. What else was supposed to happen > > there? > > Well... I've never experienced it... and so in my mind it's more

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Jim Knoble
Circa 2001-Dec-11 06:52:11 -0600 dixit Jamin W. Collins: : I too am looking for a good mail client for my Linux systems. I've been : using the following as my requirements list: : : - FULL RFC compliance : - Complete IMAP4rv1 support : - Complete POP3 support : - Small memory footprint : - Usab

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Dave Price
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:25:47AM -0700, Tim Keating wrote: > > CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is the default keyboard shortcut to exit The X Window > system. Seems to work with every window manager I've used. No it doesn't > ask for confirmation. > It also does NOT save changes to workspace(s) ... i.e. n

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 11:43, Jim Knoble wrote: > You must mean 'telnet'. The user interface isn't spectacular, but it's > great for command-line users: > > telnet imaphost.example.com imap > > The commands are standard and are listed in RFC-2060 > (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2060.html). > >

Re: Upcoming 0.61.2 realease (was: call for patches)

2001-12-11 Thread Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
There's a flaw in LinkedList also xOr talked with Raven on July 28th about this one Pasting from his e-mail I've found a problem in LinkedList.cc: check out line 164: __llist_node *nnode = new __llist_node, *inode = _first->getNext(); how this function works is, if 0 is pass

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Roman Neuhauser
> Subject: Re: E-mail clients > From: "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Blackbox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 11 Dec 2001 12:12:50 -0600 > > On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 11:43, Jim Knoble wrote: > > You must mean 'telnet'. The user interface isn't spectacular, but it's > > great for command-l

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Jan Schaumann
Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:48:28 -0500 > Scott Moynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Every email client is > > basically a collection of text areas all connected together to do > > one job: create and read email. Just to be a PITA: > And a lot mo

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Eric Davis
I've been using mutt and IMAP for well over a year now with *no* problems. Note that you have to use a development version (i.e. currently 1.3.23). It really isn't beta... rock solid. - e On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:07:26AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 08:39, Jan Schau

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Roman Neuhauser
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:46:50 -0800 > From: Eric Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Blackbox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: E-mail clients > > I've been using mutt and IMAP for well over a year now with > *no* problems. Note that you have to use

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Dave Price wrote: > > CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is the default keyboard shortcut to exit The X Window > It also does NOT save changes to workspace(s) ... i.e. new ones added, > renamed, etc. :-( Then this sounds like a bug. I am assuming that X would send a polite signal to blackb

blackbox doesn't compile with gcc 2.95.3 (under NetBSD)

2001-12-11 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
For your info, the following was submitted to the NetBSD gnats. Subject: pkg/14895: wm/blackbox doesn't compile with gcc 2.95.3 c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/obj/pkg/wm/blackbox/work.i386/.buildlink/include -I/usr/pkg/share/x11-links/include -DSHAPE -DSLIT -DINTERLACE-DNLS -DTIM

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 14:08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is the default keyboard shortcut to exit The X Window > > > It also does NOT save changes to workspace(s) ... i.e. new ones added, > > renamed, etc. :-( > > Then this sounds like a bug. I am assuming that X would send a

Re: blackbox doesn't compile with gcc 2.95.3 (under NetBSD)

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Dec-2001 Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > For your info, the following was submitted to the NetBSD gnats. > > Subject: pkg/14895: wm/blackbox doesn't compile with gcc 2.95.3 > interesting, i compile it with g++ 3.0 which is even more strict than 2.95.

Re: blackbox doesn't compile with gcc 2.95.3 (under NetBSD)

2001-12-11 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > For your info, the following was submitted to the NetBSD gnats. > > > > Subject: pkg/14895: wm/blackbox doesn't compile with gcc 2.95.3 > interesting, i compile it with g++ 3.0 which is even more strict than 2.95. This isue may be just relate

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Christian Dysthe
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:30:25 -0500 Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:27:55 -0800 > > Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:53:26PM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor > > > wrote:> I am lookin

Re: blackbox doesn't compile with gcc 2.95.3 (under NetBSD)

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Dec-2001 Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> > For your info, the following was submitted to the NetBSD gnats. >> > >> > Subject: pkg/14895: wm/blackbox doesn't compile with gcc 2.95.3 > >> interesting, i compile it with g++ 3.0 which is even more

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Scott Moynes
* Christian Dysthe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Because a lot of people like to have a GUI. They like to point and > click. Why shouldn't they get it? Because they are not willing to do anything to get it. This is terribly off-topic. There are any number of fora that will accept this type of dis

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Michael Williams
Christian Dysthe wrote: > Because a lot of people like to have a GUI. They like to point and > click. Why shouldn't they get it? I do not understand this. I have > no problems with the fact that people like to use console based > software, I even use it myself (MC as my default file manager), but

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Jan Schaumann
"Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 14:08, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > > CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is the default keyboard shortcut to exit The X Window > > > > > It also does NOT save changes to workspace(s) ... i.e. new ones added, > > > renamed, etc. :-( > > > > The

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Kyle Donaldson
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Jan Schaumann wrote: > [snip] > > Now, if blackbox receives any of SIGSEGV,SIGFPE, SIGINT or SIGTERM, it > calls this shtudonw-function, just as if "exit" had been selected from > the menu. It would therefore stand to reason that if you CTRL-ALT-BSPC > X, bb should receive a

Re: Upcoming 0.61.2 realease

2001-12-11 Thread Peter Szekszardi
Hi, There are also some focus bugs I mentioned on the list a few weeks ago. Is this new version only about bugfixes? Would you consider minor functional enhancements? I would really love to see a new focusing model, where the focus would really follow the mouse, so when there is no window under t

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Now, if blackbox receives any of SIGSEGV,SIGFPE, SIGINT or SIGTERM, it > calls this shtudonw-function, just as if "exit" had been selected from > the menu. It would therefore stand to reason that if you CTRL-ALT-BSPC > X, bb should receive a SIGTERM and save the current configuration. > > I

Re: Upcoming 0.61.2 realease

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Dec-2001 Peter Szekszardi wrote: > Hi, > > There are also some focus bugs I mentioned on the list a few weeks ago. > Is this new version only about bugfixes? Would you consider minor > functional enhancements? I would really love to see a new focusing > model, where the focus would really f

window resizing bug?

2001-12-11 Thread Chris Gilbreth
When I am resizing a windows with alt+rightmousebutton, if I click the left mouse button as I am doing it and drag some more I encounter some wierd behaviour. Try it and see; it should be very obvious. The border drawn for resizing doesn't dissappear, the window decides it wants to be a different

Re: window resizing bug?

2001-12-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 15:52, Chris Gilbreth wrote: > When I am resizing a windows with alt+rightmousebutton, if I click the > left mouse button as I am doing it and drag some more I encounter some > wierd behaviour. Try it and see; it should be very obvious. The border > drawn for resizing doesn't

Re: window resizing bug?

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Dec-2001 Chris Gilbreth wrote: > When I am resizing a windows with alt+rightmousebutton, if I click the > left mouse button as I am doing it and drag some more I encounter some > wierd behaviour. Try it and see; it should be very obvious. The border > drawn for resizing doesn't dissappear, t

Re: blackbox doesn't compile with gcc 2.95.3 (under NetBSD)

2001-12-11 Thread scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 December 2001 15:32, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > blackbox assumes that nls_types.h gives it a nls_ctad type. Apparently under > netBSD this assumption is failing. At least that is my reading. Does it compile correctly if ./configure

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 December 2001 21:24, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I do not > intend to make bb the all singing and dancing easy to use wonder wm. Hell yes to that. :) - -- [scott] :: "ein kalter Tod für den sprecher von Lügen" -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have no idea if you can get KDEmail w/o installing the whole shebang, but if you can, i definately reccomend checking it out. So far, it's my favorite GUI client... it's got the best tradeoff of features/bloat/speed. On Monday 10 December 2001 18:

Re: BUG? bb leaves open file descriptors.

2001-12-11 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Today at 9:02am, Erik Jan Tromp said: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:51:12 +0100 (CET) > Wilbert Berendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When switching styles, it seems that Blackbox opens new files for the > > directories /usr/share/Blackbox/styles and /home/wilbert/.blackbox/styles, > > without cl

Re: BUG? bb leaves open file descriptors.

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Thanks! I must have missed that conversation in February. Well it's not > that important, but I was looking how fast bb switches styles, when I > noticed the open files in qps's details->files field. > > great that a 0.61.2 is coming! > yep, fixed in the release. Still waiting for anythi

Re: window resizing bug?

2001-12-11 Thread Henrik Kinnunen
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:52:11 -0800 Chris Gilbreth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I am resizing a windows with alt+rightmousebutton, if I click the > left mouse button as I am doing it and drag some more I encounter some > wierd behaviour. Try it and see; it should be very obvious. The border >

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Today at 1:25pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry said: > > > > Now, if blackbox receives any of SIGSEGV,SIGFPE, SIGINT or SIGTERM, it > > calls this shtudonw-function, just as if "exit" had been selected from > > the menu. It would therefore stand to reason that if you CTRL-ALT-BSPC > > X, bb should receive

Re: window resizing bug?

2001-12-11 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Today at 3:53pm, Jamin W. Collins said: > On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 15:52, Chris Gilbreth wrote: > > When I am resizing a windows with alt+rightmousebutton, if I click the > > left mouse button as I am doing it and drag some more I encounter some > > wierd behaviour. Try it and see; it should be very

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Dec-2001 Wilbert Berendsen wrote: > Today at 1:25pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry said: > >> > >> > Now, if blackbox receives any of SIGSEGV,SIGFPE, SIGINT or SIGTERM, it >> > calls this shtudonw-function, just as if "exit" had been selected from >> > the menu. It would therefore stand to reason th

Re: window resizing bug?

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Dec-2001 Henrik Kinnunen wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:52:11 -0800 > Chris Gilbreth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> When I am resizing a windows with alt+rightmousebutton, if I click the >> left mouse button as I am doing it and drag some more I encounter some >> wierd behaviour. Try it a

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Jan Schaumann
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11-Dec-2001 Wilbert Berendsen wrote: > >> I believe the signal it sends is "X is not here die now". Which bb can not > >> catch. > > > > I think the signal is SIGPIPE (13, Broken pipe), Blackbox just terminates > > without saving anything. > >

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 December 2001 14:07, Jan Schaumann wrote: > Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In addition, mails are stored > in a standard forat, so that you can easily and happily grep through > your mail and perform searches that are f

Re: window resizing bug?

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
possible bug in either bb, xlib or xfree 4 was the thread's name. Fun reading, I had forgotten I was involved with it (-: Yet another bug morel fixed and we never saw ..

Script to exit confirm (was Re: Exiting Blackbox)

2001-12-11 Thread scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For anyone that's interested... here's a perl script to show how easy it is to exit-confirm. Call this script in a term window when you want to exit, and it'll ask for a "Y" or an "N" (case insensitive) no is default, so hitting enter will not kill b

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You could setup bbkeys to ExecCommand {xterm -e ~/bin/bbexit.pl} and have a script ask for confirmation (See the email i just sent with a hackish little perl script) On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:31, Eric Christian Carlsen wrote: > Along with the

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 December 2001 17:57, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 11-Dec-2001 Wilbert Berendsen wrote: > > Today at 1:25pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry said: > > > >> > > >> > Now, if blackbox receives any of SIGSEGV,SIGFPE, SIGINT or SIGTERM, it > >> > cal

Re: Upcoming 0.61.2 realease (was: call for patches)

2001-12-11 Thread scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there support for ALT+Click on windows to bring them forward regardless of Lock keys? (or is it considered a feature to not be able to ALT+click while either NUM/CAPS lock are on?) On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:46, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On T

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Is there a specific signal that could be sent to Blackbox and make > Blackbox do exactly the same thing as if a user had clicked [exit] > from within Blackbox ? > case SIGSEGV: case SIGFPE:

Re: Script to exit confirm (was Re: Exiting Blackbox)

2001-12-11 Thread Jan Schaumann
scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For anyone that's interested... here's a perl script to show how easy it is > to exit-confirm. Call this script in a term window when you want to > exit, and it'll ask for a "Y" or an "N" (case insensitive) no is default, > so hitting enter will not kill blackb

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 December 2001 19:08, Jan Schaumann wrote: > scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Tuesday 11 December 2001 14:07, Jan Schaumann wrote: > > > Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Jan Schaumann wrote: > In which case the following simple patch should fix the problem > (assuming BB _can_ catch SIGPIPE, and I don't see any reason why it > shouldn't be able to): It may also need a signal handler setup. (My patch is below.) Here is the startx logging and

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread xOr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, scott wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2001 19:08, Jan Schaumann wrote: > > scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On Tuesday 11 December 2001 14:07, Jan Schaumann wro

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Kyle Donaldson
(Oh, like I can resist making the argument worse...) Here's a quick Gtk+ program that confirms BB's exit. It sends signal 15 (SIGTERM), which BB catches and properly exits itself, most likely bringing down X with it. http://www.pointlessmovement.net/hacks/tbbexit.tar.gz --gile -- "It's

Re: Exiting Blackbox

2001-12-11 Thread Greg Gilbert
* Tim Keating ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is the default keyboard shortcut to exit The X Window > system. Seems to work with every window manager I've used. No it doesn't > ask for confirmation. CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE will kill the X session, this might not be a problem in blac

Re: E-mail clients

2001-12-11 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
Mutt is what I have been using for years. I am writing a series of articles on e-mail and need to have some GUI clients I can reccommend or at least some experience with GUI clients. Jeffrey Quoting Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:53:26PM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrot