Re: grouping windows

2002-07-15 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:32:59AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > It seems tab users like flux and move there but the opposite is also true, > those who dislike tabs do not often remain flux users. You do not have to use tabs in flux, you can very easily disable them. I use blackbox on my

Re: [patch] blackbox-0.65.0beta2 anti-aliased fonts

2002-07-15 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:53:02AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > AA support will be interesting. I know people want it but it is XFree86 4.x > specific. Which means more ifdefs. Brad also believes AA is a crock and a > waste of time. Personally I have not seen much benefit either way.

Re: new NETWM key grabber

2002-07-12 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:16:18PM -0500, Ben Jansens wrote: > So, work has begun as of tonight on a next generation key handler for > blackbox. It will be written against the NETWM spec as much as possible. But, > we're not sure just what kind of feature people out there want in their > keyh

Re: selecting and traversing menu's with keys

2002-05-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:59:52AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > that if we add keybinding support to the menu we will probably integrate full > keybinding support back into blackbox. You will note flux already did this, I realized this a minute after I had posted the email :( Even thou

selecting and traversing menu's with keys

2002-05-01 Thread Alexander Volovics
Hello, There has been some discussion on this list lately about having the option of doing all menu operations by keyboard in blackbox. Some people would appreciate this option in blackbox. Yesterday I was looking at the web sites of some other windowmanagers and on the fluxbox website I discove

Re: snap to edge?

2002-04-14 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 10:43:29AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Because 'snap to edge' was mentioned and I had never looked into it before > > I wanted to see how it worked. > > But _how_ does it work? I have experimented with different values of > > 'edgeSnapTreshold' but whatever I t

snap to edge?

2002-04-14 Thread Alexander Volovics
Hello, Because 'snap to edge' was mentioned and I had never looked into it before I wanted to see how it worked. But _how_ does it work? I have experimented with different values of 'edgeSnapTreshold' but whatever I try don't see any 'snapping' when moving windows around. I am using blackbox-04

blackbox-0.62.2 ?

2002-03-22 Thread Alexander Volovics
Hello, I was wondering if we are going to see a blackbox-0.62.2 in the not too distant future (containing all the recent patches mentioned on this list). Or is all energy going into restructuring the internals? (resulting in blackbox-0.63) Alexander

Re: bbconf segmentation fault

2002-03-15 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:11:53AM -0500, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote: > On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 18:00, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:36:02PM +0100, Yvon Thoraval wrote: > > > when rebuilding bbconfxxx.src.rpm, i get the followin error : &

Re: bbconf segmentation fault

2002-03-14 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:36:02PM +0100, Yvon Thoraval wrote: > when rebuilding bbconfxxx.src.rpm, i get the followin error : > > RPM build errors: > File not found: /var/tmp/bbconf-1.4/usr/man/man1/bbconf.1 > > and launching gives : > > [root@yvon BB]# bbconf > Segmentation fault (core d

mktemp in bsetbg from cvs

2002-02-14 Thread Alexander Volovics
I downloaded the 'bsetbg' file in cvs to get rid of the tempfile error message and recompiled blackbox. This doesn't work in RedHat Linux 7.2. RH contains a package mktemp but this mktemp does not know the option "-t" in the bsetbg script! I am refering to the following 'patch' in the cvs bsetbg

Re: Whatever happenend to bsetbg in blackbox-0.62-1 (rectification)

2002-02-13 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:42:55PM +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote: > Yesterday I plucked blackbox-0.62.1.tar.gz from sourceforge and > encountered some strange problems with 'bsetbg' > 1.2 I cannot get bsetbg to work with Esetroot anymore (like in bb-0.61.1), > i

Re: website, let's get the decision made

2002-01-26 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 08:28:09AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > 1) http://www.planetquake.com/lvl/blackbox > > 2) http://www.threadbox.net/blackbox > > 3) http://www.threadbox.net/blackbox/lightgfx.html > > 4) http://speed.seas.upenn.edu/~rarya/bb2/ > > 5) http://speed.seas.upenn.edu/~

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:30:54PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 14:19, Robin Jury wrote: > > b) I always use the slit. The toolbar however, I ignore. How about any > > functionality that people want from the toolbar be put in the slit, and that > > can be placed wherever

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:30:54PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 14:19, Robin Jury wrote: > > b) I always use the slit. The toolbar however, I ignore. How about any > > functionality that people want from the toolbar be put in the slit, and that> > >can be placed whereve

Re: Toolbar vs slit, was: Comments desired....

2002-01-21 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:59:34PM +0100, Marco wrote: > Isn't what you say below an assertion that > > 1) You want the toolbar to do what the slit does, because > 2) There is no need for *both* toolbar *and* slit in BB, > > meaning that for the end user they functionally overlap, a

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:09:28AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > As we move forward in the code reorganization, I would like to remove some of > the precompiler cruft. > Which brings me to the following questions: > a) are there any OS/2 people out there using blackbox. I would like to

Re: Eterm transparency with blackbox?

2002-01-13 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:12:32AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai wrote: > > yeah, figured it out, forgot bsetroot does gradient stuff of bb that > > Eterm does not understand. So it only works for actual files. > So Eterm will not use a bsetroot generated backgrou

Re: How minimal is minimal?

2002-01-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:14:01AM -0600, xOr wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:01:56AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 02-Jan-2002 Alexander Volovics wrote: > > > Personally I much prefer being able to immediately see which apps/windows > > >

Re: How minimal is minimal?

2002-01-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:55:42PM +1030, John Kennison wrote: > P.S - I personally like the using the workspaces menu, it allows me to > minimise something and then open it up in a completely different > workspace & keeps my taskbar clean. Then what do you need a taskbar for anyway? It is actu

Re: compiling bbapm-0.0.1

2002-01-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:48:00AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 06:42, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > There are of course other non-GUI ways to get info about battery > > load when using a laptop. > > > > But is is nice to have a icon and o

compiling bbapm-0.0.1

2002-01-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
Hello, There are of course other non-GUI ways to get info about battery load when using a laptop. But is is nice to have a icon and or toolbar graphical display. So I tried to compile bbapm-0.0.1 (on RH 7.2 using gcc-2.96-98). Make gives the following "errors": "/usr/local/bbapm001/share/bbto

How minimal is minimal?

2002-01-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
Hello, I have been using bb-0.61 on my laptop now for some time. I have tried it with and without the 'blackbox-taskbar-patches' of Ignacio Thayer. Personally I much prefer being able to immediately see which apps/windows I have iconized on the toolbar and to open them again from the toolbar the

Re: website - _basic_ design available

2001-12-29 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:12:21PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote: > > So I guess that's my vote for a grey background rather > > than white. :) > Yeah, white background sucks ass. ;-) > How 'bout a black background and grey font ( text="#cc">)? I kinda like that. And we could expand the >