- Obsolete - PCLinuxOS figures out the menu, and fbpanel shows all the KDE tray apps.
-
.. but PCLinuxOS 2007-test3 doesn't have Blackbox anymore! =(
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070818141815/http://www.kde.gr.jp:80/help/doc/kdebase/doc/khelpcenter/faq/HTML/replacewinmanager.html
-
- KBB - getting Blackbox to work with KDE -- DEAD
- https://web.archive.org/web/20050215092825/http://draknor.net:80/modules/kbb/howto/3-advanced.html
- Does not compile - Probably because it requires QT2.
- This is old enough (2000) that it wouldn't follow the new blackbox menu standard, so it's only a partial solution.
kbbmenu script ∞
-
http://vsbabu.org/gnu/blackbox.html
- kbbmenu.sh
-- Parse a directory which is assumed to be a KDE menu directory and then print a Blackbox menu structure. I redirect the output to a file which I INCLUDE in the Blackbox menu. The kbbmc program is supposed to do the same, but I couldn't make it work. Just change references to $KDEDIR to where your GNOME menu structure is, and this should work for GNOME as well. Or get gnomenu.sh!
- kbbmenu.sh
kbbmenu.sh /usr/
does not work for me. I edited it with this change:
sed 's/"//g'|sed "s/-caption//g"|sed "s/%/g"` # => sed 's/"//g'|sed 's/-caption//g'|sed 's/%//g'`
.. but that didn't do the trick either. I don't know if this script is out of date or what..
blackbox docs ∞
(source)
It is possible to use Blackbox 0.70 together with KDE 3. Blackbox can be run instead of the KDE 3 window manager by setting the KDEWM environment variable to blackbox before executing startkde
. For example, in your .xinitrc and/or Xsession:
#!/bin/sh KDEWM=blackbox export KDEWM exec startkde
If blackbox
is not in your $PATH
, you may need to set KDEWM
to the full path where blackbox
is installed.
- Notes:
-
The above example works when using
startx
from the console, or with XDM.- FIXME - Include instructions for making this work from KDM and, possibly, other login managers.
- Blackbox does not support session management. Saving and restoring sessions will not work.
- Even though Blackbox is running in KDE, Blackbox will use your chosen style. It will not use the KDE color scheme.
-
KDE uses an application called kdesktop to display the background and desktop icons. This application completely covers the root window, which means:
- You cannot access the root and workspace menus unless you explicitly kill kdesktop.
- The
rootCommand
in your preferred style will not seem to have any effect, sincekdesktop
completely covers the root window.
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