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How do I install Blackbox 0.50.5?

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Kim Vexborg

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Jun 21, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/21/99
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Hi,

I've got a question: How do i install Blackbox 0.50.5? I've been searching
the Blackbox websitre (http://blackbox.wiw.org) but cannot find any info
about installing Blackbox!
I'm at the moment using KDE - so how do I install Blackbox and tell MkLinux
to use it, and not KDE?

Take care, Kim Vexborg
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s.a>

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Jun 21, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/21/99
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do you need help compiling/installing or do you need help on getting X
to start blackbox instead of kde?


Kim Vexborg

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Jun 21, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/21/99
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Hmmm,

It looks like I need help to both (compiling/installing and getting X to
start Blackbox instead of KDE).


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In article <376DF7CE...@earthlink.net>, "s.a>" <spa...@earthlink.net>
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ndk

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Jun 21, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/21/99
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Kim Vexborg wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got a question: How do i install Blackbox 0.50.5? I've been searching
> the Blackbox websitre (http://blackbox.wiw.org) but cannot find any info
> about installing Blackbox!
> I'm at the moment using KDE - so how do I install Blackbox and tell MkLinux
> to use it, and not KDE?
>
> Take care, Kim Vexborg
> --
> Try Elements - The Mike Oldfield Website < http://welcome.to/elements >

go to http://blackbox.wiw.org/, download the version 0.50.5 tar/gzip
archive (first choice).
Gunzip it (gunzip -d <downloaded blackbox file>).
Untar it (tar -x <gunzipped or decompressed blackbox file>).
I did a find for blackbox with kfind (can't remember where it ended up
in my system) and did a symlink to /root.
When you start up linux, the welcoming screen has many wm options. Try
failsafe, after you've logged in and type exec /root/blackbox. If there
isn't any other wm working, blackbox will appear and you're set. There
is another way of setting it as default but it implies going into files
and modifying the default.
I think blackbox is great and it's no frills presentation makes it very
snappy.

Good luck.

Nicolas Krinis

s.a>

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Jun 22, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/22/99
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you forgot a few things..

first when you untar/gunzip the archive do this

tar xzvf blackbox-0.50.5.tar.gz

this will do both at the same time, Then go into the newly created
blackbox dir and type:
./configure

if all goes well type

make

then as root type:

make install

to get it as default is easy. just make a file called .Xclients in your
home dir that has this in it.

exec blackbox

after you have made this file do this command on it to make it
executable

chmod u+x .Xclients

then restart x and it should bring blackbox up.
good luck


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