gilfortes,

Try:
Cheers...

Sao:
that is what I´ve tried, or is there any difference that I can not see?
Thank you
gilfortes

gilfortes,

You wrote Backgrounds, I wrote backgrounds. :)

Cheers...

I am sorry Sao; still does not work.
gilfortes

gilfortes,

So, you cp the portiaderossi.jpg to ~/.blackbox/backgrounds

And cp the mryan 'style' to /sw/share/Blackbox/styles.

Then you edited with pico the mryan 'style' file to:
And still doesn't work? I don't know what's wrong with your settings. I just downloaded a theme named 'MegRyan' and did the same as above and works well with a new background.

Cheers...

Sao:
am going to check everything again, to make sure I have not done something wrong; just confirmed that when copied the menu file to ~/.blackbox forgot to edit and configure it; anyway this menu file is an example file, which has already some configuration; so this should not be the problem. Am i right ?
gilfortes

gilfortes,

Shouldn't be a problem.

Cheers...

Will try that as soon as I have a bit of time. Sounds very interesting.

Cheers...

Yes it is! Xfce normally uses the very small and very fast XFWM window manager..... So in effect, using WindowMaker AND Xfce simultaneously, is really using two engines, both of which together have a very small signature. The CPU monitor hardly reacts at all. Now when you activate the Gnome Panel via the "gnome-panel" command in Wmaker or the built Gnome Panel icon in Xfce also, this of course doesn't stare Sawfish also. It just gives access to all the Gnome apps via the Gnome panel.

The advantage of the Xfce panel is that you can drag it over the edge of the screen and just drag it back onto the screen when you need it.. Of course you can make the active (browser) screen an "on top" affair also, but that requires extra manipulation. In any case, Xfce is super fast. I have all my development apps in its menu system. In fact, I have all KDE, Gnome, X11, and OS X apps in my Wmaker menu system also.

Another advantage of BOTH Wmaker and Xfce is that they "re-path" the access to the apps automatically and rewrite them if the user makes a slower or less efficient path choice. Normally, all the user has to do in Xfce is to "name" the app to add it, with the exception of adding the term "Term" before terminal-dependant apps like Pine, Joe, Vim, Vi, etc....

A further note on Windowmaker/Xfce symbiosis::
One may also add a simple "wmaker" command to the Xfce menu system to launch Wmaker from Xfce instead of Xfce from Wmaker. This is even faster. Running Xfce all alone has often an annoying lack of window widgets in certain applications, such as the WWW browsers, making them totally useless because the upper window bar remains totally unresponsive to mouse actions and there are no resizing widgets up there. Running the two managers together solves this problem. XFwm and Wmaker seem to have been made for each other.

Blackbox Configuration styles is working
 

Sao:

this is just to let you know that after upgrading to Fink 0.5.1, the blackbox configuration problem is solved, it should have been some kind of incompatibility.
Now I can close this thread.
Thank you for all the help and patience.
gilfortes

Great!