Re: blackbox

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:19:29PM +0200, Niklas Höglund wrote:
> 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.

   No xrmouse on my machine, and apt-get install xrmouse doesn't get it
either. What package is it in?

>
> > 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.
>

   Hmm, I must be doing something wrong. I've changed my /etc/apt/sources.list
like this:

deb http://intimate.handhelds.org/debian unstable main
#deb http://intimate.handhelds.org/debian woody main
deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

  But running apt-get install xbase-clients (I tried xbase-clients_4.2.1-12.1
first, but that didn't work) got xbase-clients-ipaq removed and
xbase-clients_4.1.0-16woody1_arm.deb installed in it's stead. Which doesn't have
xrandr.
   Do I need to find a different unstable mirror? Hard to believe there's so
much inconsistency in packages and installs -- really frustrating!

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Harmon Seaver	
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