Configuring blackbox
 

How do you configure these aspect of blackbox:

1. Font size in the menus
2. In Window Maker, I had all the same menu items that I had in gnome, where did they go in blackbox?
3. How do I edit what menu items appear in the blackbox menu?
4. Why is it that when I use the terminal and give a command (i.e. opera &) and then I type exit, the application exits as well. What gives?
5. Finally, how do I change the wallpaper in Blackbox.

Thanks guys!

For 1 through 3 and 5 take a look at ~/.blackbox/menu
as for 4 - it shouldn't be happening on a normal setup, you are starting an application within a shell, so its parent process is the shell, and whenver the shell exits the child process is orphan (has no parent), in such a situation init process (PID 1) should become the parent of the orphan, open up anotehr term and type
ps -ef
start the opera in the original term and send it to background by appending &
type ps -ef again, exit the shell where you started application (opera) and type ps -ef again in the other term you'll see that the parent PID will change to 1, and whatever is happening on your system might be a misconfiguration, if you start another app besides opera does the same happen?

for all users there's a file called blackbox-menu
do a locate on that..
it might be in /etc/X11/blackbox , maybe somewhere else

thanks neo but I decided to go back to window maker. i like the feel that window maker has a lot better. the only thing is miss is a good file manager. i knoe nautilus works under WM but it starts the gnome environment. i have tried to configure kruiser but it keeps telling me that i don't have the right Qt installed, i have the highest version available installed. any ideas or any other file managers out there that are like nautilus without having to run the gnome environment?

"as for 4 - it shouldn't be happening on a normal setup"

huh? yes it should, closing a terminal will send a SIGHUP to all the children it has spawned... that's perfectly normal AFAIK.

WindowMaker??? ick!! stick with blackbox.. it's so so so so so much better.

why is blackbox better than window maker? I would use blackbox but there are mainly two things holding me back:

1. In WM, my menu items are the same as they were in gnome. How do I get this in blackbox? BTW, the have MDK 9.0

2. How do I increase the font size in BB's menu's and window titles?

thanks

Also, is there a way to import the menu file from WM to BB? It would be much easier that way.

Try this little app called genmenu from my post in general http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...733#post160733

Hey man, that worked pretty good! All I need now is to create a menu for my open office stuff. Where is the executable script for OpenOffice?

it should be soffice, look it up with find
find / -type f -name soffice -print
on my system it is under ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/soffice
I am sure it differs from setup to setup