[black,flux]box menus

bdp · 12-29-2002, 06:00 PM

a half-day investment into [black,flux]box has convinced me that alternative window managers can substantially improve workspace efficiency. the only feature i'm still hunting for is the transparant menu effects seen in many of the sample themes found online. installation of seemingly transparant themes do not yield transparant effects. any suggestions how to get transparancy working w/ menus? ( RH 8.0, blackbox .65 )

thx if any ideas, - bp

acid_kewpie · 12-29-2002, 06:42 PM

not possible in bb. i think waimea can do it though. I so so don't see the appeal of all these transparents things though....

pjcp64 · 12-29-2002, 07:06 PM

I got gkrellm to work ( the system graphing monitor )

I also got aterm to work ( I believe I had to compile it with the transparency option set during the configure step ).

I had some trouble getting rxvt (?) to compile [ that's why I tried aterm ] but I'm not really good at fixing those kinds of problems yet.

Good luck!

NSKL · 12-30-2002, 08:44 AM

You want transparency? If you have time to spare check out: http://www.directfb.org/ if you set it up it allows you to make any GTK application transparent and adjust it's opacity with mouse wheel. Sadly i never had time to set it up...
HTH
-NSKL

macewan · 12-30-2002, 06:48 PM

are you talking about when you right click on the desktop?

acid_kewpie · 12-30-2002, 07:11 PM

i'm assuming he means blackbox's OWN menu, and as such is not ANY toolkit... i'm pretty sure that's something only blackbox itself could do....

bdp · 12-31-2002, 02:47 AM

As per acid, I was talking about right-clicking on the desktop. I follow the no time and don't see the appeal arguments; i'm giving a talk next week regarding a master node and was trying to spiff it up to remind people that it's not just another computer. I did some more reading today (thx NSKL, i'm chewing through directfb) but haven't found anything simple like the transparancy patch for blackbox for windows to try under X.

acid_kewpie · 12-31-2002, 05:05 AM

yes i'm right... waimea does have this feature... it's based on blackbox so might be what you want:

http://www.waimea.org/shots/waimeaSS-24/shot.png
http://www.waimea.org/

macewan · 12-31-2002, 05:53 AM

for the life of me I couldn't remember wai*'s name correctly last night. thanks for the link.

acid_kewpie · 12-31-2002, 05:57 AM

i don't really like it as a blckbox clone, crashed a lot for me, and only has silly little thigns added like this, ratehr than somethign useful. but if that's what someoen wants...

NSKL · 12-31-2002, 10:42 AM

I attempted to use waimea, since i like transparency, but it really is a silly WM, crashed a lot, had time-consuming configuration, and useless things were added...
-NSKL

macewan · 12-31-2002, 05:39 PM

I've tried it a couple of times myself and was never really impressed. Used fluxbox for the longest time then switched back to blackbox. But the last few weeks I've been using openbox.
http://www.deadmule.com/images/tmp/OpenBox.png

My wife switched from windowmaker to openbox last night.

*Now if I can only get her to switch to Debian from suse*

MasterC · 12-31-2002, 06:11 PM

Hey, I'd be stoked if I could just get anyone to use linux at all

OpenBox Is it similar in settings et al, as the rest of the *box wm's? Can you use your existing settings, from say, Flux for OpenBox?

Cool

macewan · 12-31-2002, 07:24 PM

pretty sure they're swappable(sp(a.word@all?)).

bdp · 01-05-2003, 10:33 PM

I got waimea going and it looks pretty decent. A few days with it now and no crashes yet. I agree that bb is prob a better choice overall but am going to try waimea for the talk. Thx to all for the help.