waimea - blackbox improved?

pablored · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 96

Wow.

Blackbox with beautiful fonts, and transparancy... yet somehow still within a tiny amount of memory.

The homepage even has 'powered by gentoo linux' in a screenshot.

Now I just need to make some visual mods, and find that pager.

Who else is using this? Any hints to help get me going?

Jeevz · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 8:48 pm Post subject:

Blackbox is great. You might also want to check out Fluxbox. It is based on BB with some improvements.

tsuru · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 9:20 pm Post subject: alt+mouse

does waimea hardcode the Alt+MOUSE buttons like fluxbox does? I liked fluxbox until I hit that wall... I have to be able to use 3D apps like Maya, and wings3d and WMs are instantly canned if I can't change the mapping of Alt+Mouse buttons. I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat.

pablored · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 96

Everything seems changeable in the .waimearc config file, actions and behaviours. It is supposed to be possible to make it behave like any other window manager... a little complicated though (like most powerful things).

e.g. Event modifiers
shiftmask
lockmask
controlmask
mod[1-5]mask
button[1-5]mask
moveresizemask

Should be able to sort out that Alt+Mouse problem, but it is enabled by default. Your friend here is 'man waimea'

I have been running fluxbox for some weeks, but dabbled in fvwm yesterday... switched to an alpha blackbox this morning and here I am now. Indecision. Anything but what i need to be doing....LOL

I do like the look of this WM, might even try and create an ebuild of that wampager (although I have never tried writing one before).

Kaali · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 80