Re: blackbox

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 09:28:20AM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> I've been playing around with blackbox, and hadn't realized at
> first that there are two different version -- blackbox and
> blackbox-ipaq. The latter, when installed, works okay, has the popup
> menus, etc., but looks a bit crude, definitely nothing like the
> screenshots at http://intimate.handhelds.org/screens.html The
> former, blackbox_0.6.2.x, looks much nicer, but the menus don't
> work, or even show up. Is this just broken or what do I have to do
> or install to fix it?

I'd guess the standard blackbox in Debian is set up to show the menus
if you right click, which is kind of hard to do with a stylus. (If
you don't use the XRmouse applet.) There may be some config file
where you can change that, if I'm right.

> Also, xrandr is missing. I've installed xbase-clients and
> xbase-clients-ipaq, which should contain it, but it's not there. So
> when I try the rotate menu under blackbox-ipaq, it can't work.

I have xrandr on my system. It's in xbase-clients version 4.2.1-12.1.
Maybe it's not available in the version from stable. I've upgraded my
system to Debian unstable.

> And what is the little "on/off" icon in the upper left corner of the screen
> for?

That turns xstroke on and off. I'd prefer the way it's done in
familiar...

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                                                Niklas