Re: Blackbox menus and the menu system

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com>]

> 
> will get you started with a customized menu system, but may not work,
> is an all or nothing affair, and doesn't help with tweaking the
> blackbox menu generator.
> 
> I would probably ignore the menu building system and write a script
> that runs when blackbox is fired up; it would copy the default menu to
> my home dir and insert the custom stuff.  ~/.blackboxrc would have
> "session.menuFile: $HOME/.blackbox/menu" in it, instead of
> "session.menuFile: /usr/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu".  This would be
> trivial to do if you use startx, but I'm not sure where you would put
> the code for g|k|xdm logins.
> 

I tried to mail Tim (he mailed me directly) but his return address was bogus.

Blackbox can source other menu entries, so this is actually MUCH easier to do.

Have a menu file which does:

Debian ->
my rxvt
my shell
do other things

make bb use that file instead of the global one and bingo - done.