As in, how to do it?
It's not that I don't like Gnome and KDE or even twm for that matter. I just prefer my blackbox
You'll have to forgive me, i'm a bit of a newb when it comes to linux.
I downloaded the latest release blackbox-0.65.0.tar.gz
Code:
[samh@aeon samh]# tar zxvf blackbox-0.65.0.tar.gz
...
no error messages
...
[samh@aeon samh]# cd blackbox-0.65.0
[samh@aeon blackbox-0.65.0]# ./configure
...
blackbox version 0.65.0 configured successfully.
...
[root@aeon blackbox-0.65.0]# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0'
Making all in data
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/data'
Making all in styles
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/data/styles'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/data/styles'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/data'
sed -e "s,@pkgdatadir@,/usr/local/share/blackbox," ./menu.in > menu
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/data'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/data'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/doc'
sed -e "s,@defaultmenu@,/usr/local/share/blackbox/menu," \
-e "s,@pkgdatadir@,/usr/local/share/blackbox," \
-e "s,@version@,0.65.0," \
./blackbox.1.in > blackbox.1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/doc'
Making all in nls
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/nls'
Making all in C
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/nls/C'
awk -f ./../convert.awk header=../blackbox-nls.hh \
output=Translation.m ./BaseDisplay.m ./Basemenu.m ./Configmenu.m ./Icon.m ./Image.m ./Screen.m ./Slit.m ./Toolbar.m ./Window.m ./Windowmenu.m ./Workspace.m ./Workspacemenu.m ./blackbox.m ./common.m ./main.m ./bsetroot.m
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/nls/C'
Making all in da_DK
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/nls/da_DK'
Translation.m:8: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:9: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:24: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:28: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:29: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:30: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:31: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:33: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:34: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:48: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:58: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:60: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:101: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:103: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:110: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:114: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:122: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:123: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:124: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:125: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:140: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:152: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:155: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:160: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:161: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:162: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:168: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:169: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:170: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:171: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:184: invalid character: message ignored
Translation.m:185: invalid character: message ignored
make[3]: *** [blackbox.cat] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/nls/da_DK'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0/nls'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/samh/blackbox-0.65.0'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
[samh@aeon blackbox-0.65.0]#
as i missing a package or what?