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How do I go about personalizing Blackbox? I have lived in a KDE and GNOME world for the past year, and so I wanted to try and use Blackbox.
Alright, here is what I want to do right now:
Desktop background. How do I change it to a custom picture?
Desktop size. OR rather the resolution. How do I change that?
Control panel. ok I know this sounds reallly microsoft here, but is there some sort of system managr? you know where I grapically configure the system, and/or see disk drives and space on them?
I have debian and thus have no problem downloading files.
Originally posted by Brother Michael Desktop background. How do I change it to a custom picture?
~/.blackbox/init - change the 'rootCommand' with a text editor. I may be confusing it with flux - I haven't used black in even longer than I've used flux, but I think they're the same. Or just change the theme/style's rootCommand.
Desktop size. OR rather the resolution. How do I change that?
That's an X configuration issue, not a wm issue. I dunno the right way, but switching stuff around in XF86Config should do. (I get my rez and leave it but apparently some people switch it around all the time.)
Control panel. ok I know this sounds reallly microsoft here, but is there some sort of system managr? you know where I grapically configure the system, and/or see disk drives and space on them?
Control panel? Aterm or xterm or whatever. Nothing graphical, because it's a window manager, not an IDE. With a wm, X is basically just an arena for running browsers and graphics programs and whatnot - it's application-centric. Something slapped on the 'real' system, which is handled with the utter simplicity of shell and editor. If you want a graphic of your disk usage with a window manager, though, just run GKrellM. But it's a monitor more than a configurator, so to speak. And I'm sure there are all kinds of little GUI tools you can install.
Anyway - for the overall question, read blackbox's man page and fire up your editor and go changing stuff around in ~/.blackbox.
It's nice to see people exploring WMs other than the standard desktop ones. I've found Blackbox very nice to use as it provides a lot of space for work, is fast, and looks sleek. A nice tool that lets you configure Blackbox through a GUI is bbconf (bbconf.sourceforge.net ). BBconf is really handy, and makes it easier to change things on the fly.
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Nothing graphical, because it's a window manager, not an IDE. With a wm, X is basically just an arena for running browsers and graphics programs and whatnot - it's application-centric. Something slapped on the 'real' system, which is handled with the utter simplicity of shell and editor. If you want a graphic of your disk usage with a window manager, though, just run GKrellM. But it's a monitor more than a configurator, so to speak. And I'm sure there are all kinds of little GUI tools you can install.
