black box questions

[arktype]

i'm a newbie but i managed to install the black box and there is very little on the screen. i would like to add links (icons ?) for mozilla, the cd rom, text editors, etc. maybe add a cool theme (downloaded or my own jpg / tiff). where can i find a link to show me how to put things on the screen ?
also, i have to logout of kde and start failsafe, type blackbox to start the wm......how can i put this in the startup windows manager so i can click on it to start it, or at least is there a way to get it to come up on startup ?
now that i've installed a new windows manager, i feel brave. might even like to remove bb (if this is necessary) and try to install fluxbox. is there an uninstall program for linux ( i saw a lot of lines scroll by when i installed bb and don't know if these shoud be removed or not).

thanks,
ark

[X_console]

Uninstalling it depends on how you installed it. Did you build it from source (./configure; make; make install) or did you install it through a package manager?

As for icons, Blackbox doesn't use icons by default. You can give it that support however if you install the KDE libraries and core package. I believe all you have to do is to run kwm and kpanel (at least that's what it was a year or so ago). You also need to have KDE support built into Blackbox (if you compiled it).

[i_like_peanut_butter]

For Blackbox / Fluxbox you don't really use icons, just put it in the menu. Your menu file should be ~/.blackbox/menu. Just open it in a text editor and follow the formatting of the entries that are allready in there.

Not sure how themes/skins are handled in blackbox but with flux there is a directory called styles in the ~/.fluxbox/ directory. Just un-tar the theme you downloaded in there and it takes it from there.

To uninstall, how did you install it? RPM, compiled from source, other?

[arktype]

x-console: i built it from source.

peanut butter: i did not realize that the menu file was there, will explore it next and also the style folder, if it is there.

thanks, guys

[i_like_peanut_butter]

Since you installed from source, go into your source directory and as root do a make uninstall. I think blackbox comes with an uninstall rule in its makefile.