Re: Java/Blackbox oversized window bug with IBM JRE

2002-07-25 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Jamin W. Collins wrote: >On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:52:16 -0700 (PDT) "Mr. Brigham Young" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Q: How do you make a Pentium III perform like a 386? >>A: Use Java Apps >> >> > >Boy have you been using the wrong Java Apps. > > > Yup, a bit exaggerated. The speed o

Re: Java/Blackbox oversized window bug with IBM JRE

2002-07-25 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >>Yup, I can certainly understand that. =). It seems like a very hard bug >>to squash, and doesn't even seem like Blackbox's fault AFAIK. Still, I >>find it important, simply because many people use Ja** applications, and >>secondly because it doesn't happen with oth

Re: Java/Blackbox oversized window bug with IBM JRE

2002-07-25 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Chris Grossmann wrote: >Note: > >Using the four-letter "j" word seems to be a good way to make >Shaleh use the four-letter "f" word. ;) > >On July 25 (12:45 EDT), Øyvind Stegard wrote: > > >>Hello >> >>I just experienced this

Java/Blackbox oversized window bug with IBM JRE

2002-07-25 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Hello I just experienced this bug using IBM's newest JRE v1.3.1. It does *not* happen so frequently with IBM's JRE as with Sun's, though, but still, it happens.(Again, dialogs are the problem) Just wanted to point this out, so we know it doesn't only happen with Sun's java stuff. -- Øyvind S

Re: NLS - Norwegian/NO language support in Blackbox

2002-07-18 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >On 18-Jul-2002 Øyvind Stegard wrote: > > >>Hi again, >> >>I noticed that Norwegian language support is missing from the Blackbox >>distribution. Perhaps I could do some translating, since Norwegian is my >>mother t

NLS - Norwegian/NO language support in Blackbox

2002-07-18 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Hi again, I noticed that Norwegian language support is missing from the Blackbox distribution. Perhaps I could do some translating, since Norwegian is my mother tongue.(If the Blackbox maintainers are interested in this) I'm afraid I would need some instructions on how to do it, since I've ne

Re: bbconf 1.8 configure error(libqt3 detection)

2002-07-18 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Hmm. Since it looks like there's some sort of problem with Mandrake and/or the RPMs, I've decided to erase the packages of the QT3 library, d/l offical tarball from Trolltech and compile the whole thing myself. (w/multithread support enabled =). Perhaps this will resolve the issue. Thanks for

Re: bbconf 1.8 configure error(libqt3 detection)

2002-07-18 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >>>unless you have libqt-mt-devel or whatever your dist calls it the configure >>>script won't find it. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Yep, like I said, I have all the development files installed as well. >>(libqt3-devel-3.0.4 package). I also jsut noticed that someo

Re: bbconf 1.8 configure error(libqt3 detection)

2002-07-18 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: I have verified that this library IS available with ldconfig -v. Any tips on how I can get the configure script to properly detect the installed qt-libraries ? >>>libqt-mt is different from libqt. libqt-mt is what KDE uses. P

Re: bbconf 1.8 configure error(libqt3 detection)

2002-07-18 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Ben Jansens wrote: >On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:33:44PM +0200, ?yvind Stegard wrote: > > >>Perhaps someone here can help me with this: >>Tried to compile latest and greatest bbconf on my Mandrake 8.2 >>system(lotsof upgrades done). >> >>I have installed libqt3-3.0.4 and libqt3-devel-3.0.4, but

bbconf 1.8 configure error(libqt3 detection)

2002-07-18 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Perhaps someone here can help me with this: Tried to compile latest and greatest bbconf on my Mandrake 8.2 system(lotsof upgrades done). I have installed libqt3-3.0.4 and libqt3-devel-3.0.4, but the configure script complains that it cannot find qt (>=3.0.3), and aborts. (Can't find libqt-mt).

Re: intent to remove Top and Bottom Center option from slit

2002-07-16 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >Does anyone actually use either option and would miss it? Now is your chance >to speak up! > > > > I never use those slit positions and suspect I never will.

Re: Yet another *tiny tiny* feature suggestion

2002-07-15 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Gerrit Hoetzel wrote: >Why are you using that integrated blackbox menu, at all? >Many people on this list want keyboard navigation, popup on key, ... > > Well, if you ask 10 different people how they usually work with their desktop/X environment, you are likely to get 10 different answers. It'

Yet another *tiny tiny* feature suggestion

2002-07-15 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Hi there I know many people here oppose most "new feature" suggestions, and I understand, I think most Blackbox users will agree when I say that we don't won't a bloated and big wm. That being said, I would still like to point out a little issue that I have encountered: When working with maxim

Java dialog problem encountered in other apps

2002-07-12 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Just wanted to point out that I just experienced the dialog problem with LimeWire running JRE1.4.1 from Sun (the newest, as far as I know). Problem does not seem to be specifically related to just JBuilder, but perhaps it's worse with JBuilder than other Java apps. --- ØS.

Re: additional verbosity

2002-07-11 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >Ok, to further track this down, I added a new print much earlier in the >process. This is the absolute earliest that blackbox is aware of the window >and 100% could have done nothing to affect it. No X calls have been made on >the client's behalf at this point. > >Ap

Re: Testing the JBuilder (java?) oversized dialog problem with other WMs

2002-07-11 Thread Øyvind Stegard
OK, here's what I've done: * Applied verbose patch and enabled debugging in blackbox (perhaps I shouldn't have done that ?) * Started X with nothing but blackbox (Directed output from blackbox to file (both STDERR and OUT)) * Opened an aterm * Launched JBuilder (with personal settings file dele

Testing the JBuilder (java?) oversized dialog problem with other WMs

2002-07-11 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Hi again Just tested JBuilder with twm and then Sawfish, and the oversized dialog box problem never happened, so I'm pretty sure that the problem is Blackbox<->JavaVM/JBuilder related. Here are the results of xprop and xwininfo under twm (exactly same situation/dialog as before) (I have not c

xprop and xwininfo on JBuilder dialog, running blackbox (Oversized dialogs problem)

2002-07-11 Thread Øyvind Stegard
OK, maybe this would help a little. Launched JBuilder and did xprop and xwininfo on the "Tip of the Day" dialog that appears first (greatly and incorrectly oversized) Blackbox version is 0.65b2, X screen resolution is 1024x768 (24bit). I did not move, resize or touch anything before doing these c

Re: JBuilder and Blackbox-- Dialogs Way Too Big?

2002-07-11 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Roy Wood wrote: >Anyone else working with JBuilder and Blackbox? > >With other window managers, JBuilder's dialogs are okay, but with >Blackbox, they open way too big (as in much larger than the actual screen >size). > > >Any thoughts on what's up? Is BB providing some hinting for window sizes

Re: Workspace change crash ( ....death after 30-35 hours of cont

2002-06-10 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >On 10-Jun-2002 Øyvind Stegard wrote: > > >>I have managed to crash blackbox on workspace change and gotten a core. >>Gaim seems to be in the clear, since I was not running GAIM this time.. >>I managed to crash blackbox by r

Workspace change crash ( ....death after 30-35 hours of contin.....)

2002-06-10 Thread Øyvind Stegard
I have managed to crash blackbox on workspace change and gotten a core. Gaim seems to be in the clear, since I was not running GAIM this time.. I managed to crash blackbox by randomly and fast changing between all workspaces. (by keyboard shortcuts) Java and mozilla was running. This is what I

Re: BlackBox 0.65alpha8 death after 30-35 hours of continuous us

2002-06-10 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Jamin W. Collins wrote: >On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 23:34:45 +0200 >"Øyvind Stegard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>OK, it is confirmed that TIME is NOT an issue here, like you said. It >> >> >(snip) > > >>some more factors

Re: BlackBox 0.65alpha8 death after 30-35 hours of continuous us

2002-06-10 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >On 10-Jun-2002 Øyvind Stegard wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>Just posting a "little" issue I have with BlackBox, just to see if >>anyone else is having similar problems. >> >>It concerns version 0.65alpha8: &

Re: BlackBox 0.65alpha8 death after 30-35 hours of continuous usage

2002-06-10 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Derek Cunningham wrote: >On Mon, Jun10,02 20:58, Øyvind Stegard wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >> >> > > > >>If someone has any debug tips or anything, I will certainly try those, >>if it helps. >> >> > > >Recommend

BlackBox 0.65alpha8 death after 30-35 hours of continuous usage

2002-06-10 Thread Øyvind Stegard
ps are disabled in default Mandrake config for normal users ?? Is this right ?? How do I enable coredumps ? My system is basically an original Mandrake 8.2 installation, with certain upgrades. Regards, Øyvind Stegard

Re: Feature request: Position locking of maximised windows

2002-05-29 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Es Bee Ex wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002 02:51:24 +0200 Øyvind Stegard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a simple feature request: How about an option that will keep maximised windows locked in position so that they cannot be "accidentally" moved ? This is a

Re: Feature request: Position locking of maximised windows

2002-05-29 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 30-May-2002 Øyvind Stegard wrote: Hi, Just a simple feature request: How about an option that will keep maximised windows locked in position so that they cannot be "accidentally" moved ? Regards, Øyvind Stegard

Feature request: Position locking of maximised windows

2002-05-29 Thread Øyvind Stegard
Hi, Just a simple feature request: How about an option that will keep maximised windows locked in position so that they cannot be "accidentally" moved ? Regards, Øyvind Stegard