Does BBox require Gnome?

[SynapticBurst]

Hi, just wondering if BBox can be installed with fresh installation of Mandrake..without Gnome. I understand that I won't be able to use many of the Gnome Apps out there, but I'm sure that someone will come up with a patch of somesort.

[scanez]

Of course not, blackbox is a window manager in and of itself, independent of anything else. You can run it by itself without Gnome.

SC

[ 29 October 2001: Message edited by: scanez ]

[Toi Mak]

You can use Gnome apps (KDE too) in Blackbox as long as the required libs are installed.

[Pitt]

How would you disable Gnome and just run BBox?

[WilliamWallace]

make a file in your home directory called .xinitrc (with the period) in the file enter the following:

exec blackbox

that should do it now when you type startx