I took a look at fbdesk, but did not see what it did that rox could not do for me.
I also took a look at Fluxspace, but could not find all the dependencies it needed and decided it was not worth the trouble. derek On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 4:15 am, Terry Smith wrote: > Todd, > I'm running ROX 1.3.3 (from Mandrake) seems about the same, performance > wise but, if I recall you were running a somewhat older version of Rox a > few months ago. Do you have 'thumbnails' turned off? > > Derek, > I'll take a look at bbpager..sound good. > > Derek, Todd et al. > > Meanwhile, I grabbed fbdesk from a 'contrib' mirror. 'S'pose to put > icons on your fluxbox desktop, which it does, but they don't seem to be > very functional. Wassup with this addon? You guys using it? > > Terry Smith > Cape Cod USA > > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 03:49, Derek Jennings wrote: > > Good. > > Like Todd I find the gap between fluxbox and KDE has narrowed with > > Mandrake 9.1. KDE is faster and fluxbox seems a little slower. But KDE > > is still not fast enough to make it comfortable to use on my low end > > laptop. > > > > While we are on the subject of fluxbox, I have an RPM of bbpager on my > > download page you might like to try. > > http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdow > >nload&cid=1 > > > > BBpager gives you a view of the contents of your desktops. You can even > > move windows from desktop to desktop with it. > > > > Invoke it with bbpager -n -c ~/.bbtools/bbpager.nobb & in your > > ~/.fluxbox/startup file > > You will need to move the contents of /usr/share/bbtools to ~/.bbtools > > and edit the bbpager.nobb as required. I made these changes :- > > > > bbpager.desktopChangeButton: 1 > > bbpager.windowMoveButton: 1 > > bbpager.windowFocusButton: 3 > > bbpager.windowRaiseButton: 3 > > > > derek > > > > On Friday 04 Apr 2003 4:12 am, Terry Smith wrote: > > > They say the memory goes first :-)). So I checked some more and am > > > answering my own question.... > > > > > > I had actually sent a msg to a new fluxbox convert several months ago. > > > My knowledge, in turn came from something Derek had posted. > > > > > > Anyhow, to get fluxbox to see your 'startup' script you need a line in > > > the ~/.fluxbox/init config file that says: > > > > > > session.screen0.rootCommand ~/.fluxbox/startup > > > > > > The file 'startup' must be executable. > > > > > > Works fine now. > > > > > > Terry Smith > > > Cape Cod USA > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 21:23, Terry Smith wrote: > > > > Derek, Todd and all you other fluxbox experts out there, > > > > > > > > Still probing 9.1 (the best yet IMHO ..in fact, on my 'minimalist' > > > > machine, I put CD1 in the drive, rebooted, left the house for 3 > > > > hours, came home, hit 'return' pulled the CD and had a system that > > > > worked perfectly [it was an update rather than a clean install but > > > > what the hey]) > > > > > > > > but I digress... > > > > > > > > I use fluxbox and rox in tandem as ably demonstrated by Derek and > > > > Todd some moths ago. The new fluxbox (fluxbox-0.1.14-6mdk but the > > > > same thing is true of texstar's 0.1.14 rpm) is 'overlaying' my > > > > desktop with a bsetbg coming from the selected theme. Said > > > > differently, although I've put a line in my 'startup' script like > > > > > > > > 'bsetbg -f ~/photos/picture_I_want' > > > > > > > > the actual background I get is that determined by the theme. I've > > > > tried commenting out the 'session.styleFile' line but that didn't > > > > work either. > > > > > > > > I thought maybe the Rox pinboard was interfering with background but > > > > it's turned off. > > > > > > > > Anybody seen/fixed this? > > > > > > > > TIA. > > > > > > > > Terry Smith > > > > Cape Cod USA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > >_ > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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