SuSE 9.1 & /sbin/SuSEconfig configuration files
I have been running SuSE since 7.3, and am currently running 8.2 Professional. In the last 24 hours, I have installed 9.1 Professional on an old testbed machine to evaluate it. I would like to upgrade my main machine, with the proviso that I need to be able to override a change that SuSE have made to the default Blackbox window manager configuration, which is slightly odd and a visual mess to say the least. Blackbox relies on two global configuration files: /usr/share/blackbox/menu /usr/share/blackbox/styles/$STYLE The second can easily be edited of course to amend the appearance of the preferred style (Rancor in my case) to be as previous versions (in fact, I can just overwrite the "new" style template with the old one). However, /usr/share/blackbox/menu is a little more problematic as I understand that if I edit this file manually, my edit will be overwritten each time I run SuSEconfig; after each YaST Online Update, or installation of software using YaST2, for instance. It is presumably possible, though, to edit the file which SuSEconfig invokes when writing the Blackbox configuration so that it re-configures it each time how I want it. Does anyone know the location of the file concerned, and whether this can be done? -- Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net
On 16 May, Anthony Edwards wrote:
I have been running SuSE since 7.3, and am currently running 8.2 Professional. In the last 24 hours, I have installed 9.1 Professional on an old testbed machine to evaluate it.
I would like to upgrade my main machine, with the proviso that I need to be able to override a change that SuSE have made to the default Blackbox window manager configuration, which is slightly odd and a visual mess to say the least.
Blackbox relies on two global configuration files:
/usr/share/blackbox/menu /usr/share/blackbox/styles/$STYLE
The second can easily be edited of course to amend the appearance of the preferred style (Rancor in my case) to be as previous versions (in fact, I can just overwrite the "new" style template with the old one).
However, /usr/share/blackbox/menu is a little more problematic as I understand that if I edit this file manually, my edit will be overwritten each time I run SuSEconfig; after each YaST Online Update, or installation of software using YaST2, for instance.
It is presumably possible, though, to edit the file which SuSEconfig invokes when writing the Blackbox configuration so that it re-configures it each time how I want it.
Does anyone know the location of the file concerned, and whether this can be done?
Is it not possible to edit your ~/.blackboxrc file, changing the name of your menu? This is, in fact, what I have had to do, because fluxbox exhibits the same behavior. I used to use blackbox, and I seem to recall that this can be done there as well. Regards, -- John Lalla Santa Barbara, CA .~. _ /v\ -o) no gates... /( )\ /\\ running GNU/Linux no windows! ^^^^^ _\_v free at last! "Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . "
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 09:23:45PM -0700, John Lalla wrote:
Is it not possible to edit your ~/.blackboxrc file, changing the name of your menu?
It's possible, yes, but it's not what I want to do. I do want the benefit of SuSEconfig automatically updating /usr/share/blackbox/menu when new applications are added using YaST, however I want to customise that behaviour so that /usr/share/blackbox/menu is more like that in previous versions. If I can find the master file that SuSEconfig uses to make these automatic changes, this should be simple. -- Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:38:38PM +0100, Anthony Edwards wrote:
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 09:23:45PM -0700, John Lalla wrote:
Is it not possible to edit your ~/.blackboxrc file, changing the name of your menu?
It's possible, yes, but it's not what I want to do. I do want the benefit of SuSEconfig automatically updating /usr/share/blackbox/menu when new applications are added using YaST, however I want to customise that behaviour so that /usr/share/blackbox/menu is more like that in previous versions.
If I can find the master file that SuSEconfig uses to make these automatic changes, this should be simple.
This seems to be irrelevant anyway; it appears that SuSEconfig in SuSE 9.1 does not update /usr/share/blackbox/menu when applications are added or removed using YaST2, so this has to be done manually. I am sure that this is not SuSE's intention, and that something might be slightly broken. I have tried several SuSE 9.1 installations though, and this behaviour appears to be consistent across all of them. -- Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:38:38PM +0100, Anthony Edwards wrote:
If I can find the master file that SuSEconfig uses to make these automatic changes, this should be simple.
It's not SuSEconfig, it's xdg-menu. From package description: This package contains a perl script which converts XDG menus to formats used by WindowMaker and other window managers. Regards, -Kastus
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:36:17PM -0700, Kastus wrote:
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:38:38PM +0100, Anthony Edwards wrote:
If I can find the master file that SuSEconfig uses to make these automatic changes, this should be simple.
It's not SuSEconfig, it's xdg-menu. From package description:
This package contains a perl script which converts XDG menus to formats used by WindowMaker and other window managers.
Thanks. I wonder in what way exactly it's broken with the result that it doesn't seem to work in respect of Blackbox in SuSE 9.1, and also how one can customise it to make it do what one wants when updating the Blackbox menu also (once it's fixed of course). -- Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net
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