Black box theme question

X_shadow_X · 07-06-2003, 02:33 PM

well you can call me an idiot but i din't understand anything from here
http://themes.freshmeat.net/articles/view/465/

I have downloaded theme. When i unpacked it this is what i get

total 5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 193 Jun 7 2000 14x.lsm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jun 7 2000 backgrounds (there are 1 file was 14x.jpg i think this is background)
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jun 7 2000 styles (there are 14x)

after find / -name blackbox found thees dir
/usr/local/bin/blackbox (empty)
/usr/local/share/blackbox ( there are menu (file) nls/ (dir) and styles/ (dir))
there to put thees 3 files
sorry for English

slakmagik · 07-06-2003, 04:03 PM

I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you asking how to install themes for blackbox? I've been without it for awhile - just got it back today - so I may be rusty but I believe you just need to change to the directory ~/.blackbox/themes or create it if it isn't there and unpack the files there. I think you *can* do it in /usr/local/share/blackbox/themes or whatever, but if you just want personal themes, try 'em in your home directory. When you restart blackbox the theme should show up in the menu list.

Hm. Maybe it's ~/.blackbox/styles. I was thinking it was 'themes'. If 'styles' already exists, try it there first.

If not, do 'themes'. Hope this helps.

cuckoopint · 07-06-2003, 08:28 PM

I'm currently away from my computer. digiot has the right idea: only that you will need to find a file (hopefully in /usr/local/share/blackbox/) where you tell it to look in ~/.blackbox/styles. Otherwise it doesn't know...

Then simply copy the contents into ~/.blackbox/styles

X_shadow_X · 07-07-2003, 10:09 AM

Thanks worked, now i have to configure my transparency somehow
Thanks agan

X_shadow_X · 07-07-2003, 11:07 AM

Sorry hope this will be the last question.
i have installed aterm successfully, but 1 more thing. for exgzample, when in blackbock xterm i write *aterm -sr -tr -fg white -sh 60 -bg black* only then it becomes transpared is it possible that then i run xterm it automatically becomes trans pared with this CL *aterm -sr -tr -fg white -sh 60 -bg black* pleas help me

cuckoopint · 07-07-2003, 03:17 PM

Quote:

only then it becomes transpared is it possible that then i run xterm it automatically becomes trans pared with this CL *aterm -sr -tr -fg white -sh 60 -bg black* pleas help me

I'm not sure what you mean...

Do you mean something like:

$aterm

and it starts it with "-sr -tr -fg white -sh 60 -bg black"?

If so, then you can create an alias in ~/.bashrc where you alias some name (eg. "aterm") with the command "aterm -sr -tr -fg white -sh 60 -bg black" and next time you run "aterm" it will run it with all the options set.

Is that what you meant?

slakmagik · 07-07-2003, 08:11 PM

I think that's it. If you just want it for a blackbox terminal at startup, then you could change the last couple of lines of ~/.xinitrc to

aterm -sr -tr -fg white -sh 60 -bg black&
exec blackbox

but cuckoopint's got it for if you want it to do that all the time. Like the first way will autostart like that, though additional instances would be default and the second will make all instances like that. Having done the alias, if you wanted it at startup as well, then you could just do

aterm&
exec blackbox

I think. *g*

X_shadow_X · 07-08-2003, 10:58 AM

Thanks for help, but i didn't understood. can you write step by step where to go because i didn't find this ~/.xinitrc, would be nice that aterm work for all desktops not only for blackbox, but if it is hard to do then only say how to do it for blackbox

oh and that does it mean ~/

cuckoopint · 07-08-2003, 12:46 PM

~ means your home directory.
ie, /home/user/

so instead of typing /home/user/.xsession
one types ~/.xsession

so, create an xsession with pico, or whatever editor:

vim ~/.xsession

Code:

#!/bin/sh         <-- first line
command1&     <-- command
gkrellm&
command2&
#and so forth..anything you want to start followed by a '&'
#
# and first we source .bashrc (don't know if this is done by default)
#we're  going to delay things by 2 seconds, so it's all good
# ;)
#
source ~/.bashrc&
sleep 2s && aterm&
exec blackbox

and you're ~/.bashrc...
add a line such as:

alias aterm='aterm -sr -tr -fg white -sh 60 -bg black'

voila

X_shadow_X · 07-12-2003, 03:50 PM

Sorry that I am posting only today but i was gone.

Well you can call me an idiot but I did something wrong,transparency didn't worked.

1 I made file pico /home/tadas/.xsession, there i done copy and paste
#!/bin/sh <-- first line (what i have to write here )
command1& <-- command (what i have to write here )
gkrellm&
command2&
#and so forth..anything you want to start followed by a '&'
#
# and first we source .bashrc (don't know if this is done by default)
#we're going to delay things by 2 seconds, so it's all good
#
#
source ~/.bashrc&
sleep 2s && aterm&
exec blackbox

2 i didn't understood what i had to do with this
you're ~/.bashrc...

Plz help, i would like to finish with this, because i would like to have different desktop from windows.

Poetics · 07-12-2003, 04:44 PM

Leave the "#!/bin/sh" line alone; you don't have to change a thing here

cuckoopint · 07-12-2003, 09:38 PM

Ok, first post your ~/.bashrc file.

And for the second thing, you want to create a file ~/.xsession and put this in it:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
source ~/.bashrc&
sleep 2s && aterm&
exec blackbox

that should get you started.
If you want to start other programs as well at startup, then let us know.