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mrBen
11-12-2001, 10:31 AM
OK, this probably isn't a big thing for most of you, but I've always had problems with compiling from source. But over the weekend I managed to compile blackbox v 0.61.1, bbpager and bbkeys with almost no problems. For me this is dead exciting :D Plus blackbox is _sweet_!

I also bought a new keyboard this weekend. One of those fancy multimedia types with extra keys. And it looks like I'll get the keys working in Linux quicker than Windows!

[For the interested: the windows drivers for some reason need more than 30Mb on the harddrive to install themselves - I think the installer unpacks itself onto the drive and then installs the files it needs - and it won't let me change the installation directory and I don't have enough space on C. So hopefully, with a little help from xev and xmodmap, I should get at least some of them working under Linux first. :cool:]
bwkaz
11-12-2001, 01:05 PM
Congratulations!

I should try Blackbox on my Linux From Scratch partition before KDE ... since kdelibs decided yesterday it didn't want to compile. Thanks for reminding me it existed!
inkedmn
11-12-2001, 08:18 PM
i remember when i finally got a program to compile right, that was a great feeling...

good job, friend...
mangeli
11-12-2001, 11:13 PM
Welcome to the BB club...
M8ram
11-15-2001, 12:34 PM
Hi MrBen,

First of all congratulations!


I've got a little question for you, could you post exactly how you got those extra keys too work when you do? And where you find the documentation would be nice too.

Thanks and keep up the good work!
:)
mrBen
11-15-2001, 01:28 PM
OK, couple of things:

1. The Blackbox documentation is currently hidden away here (http://bb.classic.themes.org/php/docs.phtml?docid=25) - all the rest of the links, even from the blackbox site, are dead.

2. My plan for the keys is thus:
- Find out how to obtain the source of xev (the X event viewer) which I don't have at the moment, and can't find on the net - everywhere just says it should be in my distro's XWindows, but it's not :(

- See if xev recognises the keys
- Map them to some control functions that aren't ever used using xmodmap (things like Ctrl+Shift+Alt+1 or something obscure)
- Use BBKeys to map the keys to the functions I want.

So now all I need is xev as everything else is working. I might even write an NHF.

Oh, BTW,
this (http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/xkeys.html) is probably the best HOW-TO I have seen for remapping keys.

HTH