> I can use ghostview just fine in fvwm, so I am pretty sure it's a
> blackbox issue. I am using ghostview 1.5 and ghostscript 7.
i have gv 3.5.8 and GNU Ghostscript 7.05, no problems... maybe your
ghostview is just _really_ old
Sam
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I'm going to raise an issue and stick it in your ear.
> a screen shot would also help. The command 'import' in the
> ImageMagick suite is a good one.
hmm, that i can do, but it will not really help matters much, its more
of a dynamic thing... ill keep you posted if it happens again.
Sam
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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be underst
> "slide bars under all my apps", can you explain this more? Provide a
> sample app that shows this issue?
well i think scroll bar is the technical term, but it escaped me at the
time... it happenned under nedit, xmgrace and sylpheed-claws, the main
windows.
i exited X and came back into blackbo
hmm,
you wanted testing of the new beta2... after use for ~24hours (well, not
all use... a night of it doing nothing and a day of work) i noticed that
slide bars under all my apps stopped working correctly. the apps were
using various toolkits, gtk+ , xlib, motif the usual. i dont see how
anythin
> nah, today is my 25th b'day -- all fingers point my way!
happy birthday, and hopefully all the pints will also be spilling your
way later!
Sam
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Great minds run in great circles.
> Semi-PS: how difficult would it be to get the list software to add to
> change the X-Loop: header to the submission address or add another
> commonly used list header with the submission address?
i'm with you, i always have to "reply all" to get a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] in my "To:" field
Sam
--
Thr
> using blackbox-0.65-beta1 and sylpheed-claws 0.7.8 a little strange
> thing happens:
i use sylpheed-claws 0.78 and no problems at all, but admittedly it is
somewhat different to plain 'ol sylpheed
Sam
--
Adults die young.
OK,
i have figured out that bbsload is actually the offending program when
it comes to the size of the slit... it doesnt ever seem to want to be
smaller than 20 pixels no matter how many 'bars' i select... it just
resizes to 20 pixels.
The only option which even mentions height is this;
!mailtoo
> 2. Then how do I ?
> RTFM
3. Where do i find the manual?
RTFM
> The slit sizes itself to the size of the largest app it contains.
hmm, must be either bbpager or bbsload then... i can change the size of
bbpager no problem, does anyone know how to resize the height of
bbsload? it msut be the offender... i only have one cpuUser.gauge
also on a side note, does
hi there,
i have setup blackbox pretty much the way intended on first seeing it,
its a great WM! but i can never seem to get the slit to go smaller than
20 pixels in order to get it to be the same size as the toolbar (btw
does anyone know the default height of the toolbar? i guess 18). Is
there a
> See the "bbpager.bb" file, or the "INSTALL" file in the
> bbpager tarball.
oh cool, i never noticed the .bb file for the pager!
Sam
--
To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.
> When I specify "Vertical" I get my apps stacked vertically
> on top of one another. When I specify "Horizontal" I get
> them in a horizontal line, next to each other.
i want the pager to have the desktops horizonatlly beside each other,
not vertically above each other
Sam
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quark:
T
> Try right clicking on the slit. There are options there for
> direction/placement.
but choosing horizontal that way only realligns the other windows
relative to the slit... i want the slit itself to be horizontal
Sam
--
"Microwave oven? Whaddya mean, it's a microwave oven? I've been
watchi
> i believe the common thing to do with startup scripts in order to
> avoid the error you're seeing is:
>sleep 2 && exec bbpager &
>sleep 2 && exec bbsload &
> this is what i've got, and it works fine every time. hope that helps.
i still can't get it to work through the scripts, im sticki
> run your script with xinit. If you don't run an X server you cant
> possibly expect your apps to connect to it. :)
i know, but the shell itself is still being envoked without an X
server... Russ Burdick just posted the solution using exec commands,
although i havnt restarted X yet...
Sam
--
A
> ok, last time. make that startbb script and run it instead of
> blackbox. Putting startup commands in your stlye is *not* a good idea.
i do use a script, but you can't run X programs from it because the
script is obviously being invoked from a terminal i have tried, all
you get is an error
> {aterm && aterm} only launches a
> single aterm window.
does && not mean 'proceed on success'? if you want 2 aterm windows just
use
aterm & aterm
Sam
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"The following is not for the weak of heart or Fundamentalists."
-- Dave Barry
> First off, can you PLEASE learn how to wrap your lines?
sorry everyone! i had submitted a bash script in a mail list and i
needed to turn of wrapping, i forgot to turn it back on!
> Second, I do something much like you describe. My ~/.xsession
> contains items that I always want started, and t
> > has anyone else noticed that aterm doesn't seem to work so good with blackbox :(
> Since when? Perhaps if you describe what you think doesn't work?
i have actually got aterm working now... i had TERM=linux and i don't think aterm
likes that very much, so now i use TERM=xterm-color
by the wa
hey there,
does anyone know where the homepage of bblaunch is? i can only ever get hits to debian
when i run a search on google...
thanks in advance!
Sam
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Did I say 2? I lied.
> What is your TERM variable set to:
> # echo $TERM
linux
cheers,
Sam
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"I may appear to be just sitting here like a bucket of tapioca, but don't let
appearances fool you. I'm approaching old age ... at the speed of light."
-- Prof. Cosmo Fishhawk
> > > 3 - put iconified apps into the panel so i can click on them to get them back
> > "panel"? do you mean the toolbar? it is not a panel. To get your icons middle
> > click the root window and choose the icons menu.
> but what if i have a window that is covered up by the currently active wind
> > 2 - load the pager and load applets on startup (also resize them and position
> > them)
> you do not resize wm dock apps. They are 64x64 (or 48x48).
but then they are too big... the toolbar is smaller than that, and then they hang
above it. any plans to support dock apps that are the same s
> >> >> i like using the gnome terminal with transparency and no style
> >> >> borders. Preferably i use aterm, but it doesnt seem to like blackbox.
> >> > as i said before: i have absolutely no problem with aterm
> >> > tryed eterm?
> >> or tell us what is broke with aterm.
> > i dont know if thi
> > 1 - change the background of blackbox to a jpg i have
> AFAIK with BB comes the tool bsetbg whitch changes the root-window.
> I use bsetbg -f pic.jpg
bsetbg -f other/accretion.jpg
bsetbg: couldn't find a suitable image program. tried the following:
display
xli
xsetbg
Esetroot
qiv
wmsetbg
xv
> >> i like using the gnome terminal with transparency and no style
> >> borders. Preferably i use aterm, but it doesnt seem to like blackbox.
> > as i said before: i have absolutely no problem with aterm
> > tryed eterm?
> or tell us what is broke with aterm.
i dont know if this is good news or
hi, me again
can i launch an application which has it's own style... i like using the gnome
terminal with transparency and no style borders. Preferably i use aterm, but it doesnt
seem to like blackbox.
cheers!
Sam
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Youth. It's a wonder that anyone ever outgrows it.
this is probably the greatest ever RTFM moment for you guys... but could somebody
please tell me how i can;
1 - change the background of blackbox to a jpg i have
2 - load the pager and load applets on startup (also resize them and position them)
3 - put iconified apps into the panel so i can cli
woohoo,
thankyou wes hopkins for;
http://www.mail-archive.com/blackbox@trolltech.com/msg06480.html
Sam
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with humane men I will plead;
but to tyrants I will give no quarter.
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