i have written a howto for people new to blackbox. it's directed at newbies, so if you are a more experienced user please bear with me on this one. ok? the howto goes in depth on install and basic configuration of blackbox. get it here:

norwegian version
english version

i also wrote a short howto on installing fonts. the fonts you will find here , all made by Audun Ytterdal.

font howto

this should cover it. you can also send me a mail if you have questions.

to finnish of the howto stuff here some words on patching the blackbox source with some rather sweet patches.

been playing around with some blackbox patches and it's quite fun. you can go find the patches here and then some more here. not all of these works though. i just noticed that i had deleted the shot i had on my site earlier. but you get the point. the iconifed applications now appear in the toolbar as a sotr of a tab, so now you can click them and they pop up again. :) too bad the iconfied applications like bbkeys pops up there as well. but you can't have it all.

you have to get the blackbox source of course, to apply patches. get a tarball or simply use apt like this:

$apt-get source blackbox

i like to put all my source in /usr/local/src (cause the bastard is an anal and conform). so first unpack the blackbox tarball here, and then put the plain txt file in here as well (usr/local/src). so now let's patch the source. goes like this:

$patch -p0 < patchname

or for a gzip patch do:

$gzip -cd name.patch.gz | patch -p0

now if everything is sweet you should get several lines with output like this:

patching file blackbox-0.61.1/nls/C/Configmenu.m

then configure and compile the source. and then copy the blackbox binary from /usr/local/src/blackbox-0.61.1/src to /usr/bin and tada - test your new blackbox with the new patch.

i wanted to make this page, so i could put some of my config files up. easy to get them for me and others. here are some files for x, blackbox, zsh and such.

zshrc
put it in /etc.

zshenv
personalize it and put it in /etc.

XFConfig-4
belongs in /etc/X11. this is setup with -my- hardware.

.Xdefaults
my xdefaults.

.gtkrc
my gtkrc.

menu
my blackbox menu.

.blackboxrc
my blackboxrc.

.bbkeysrc
my bbkeysrc.

.xinitrc
my xinitrc.

.vimrc
my vimrc.

also check out dotfiles.com for other handy dotfiles