blackbox in Fedora

[Cymon J. Cox]

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 20:48, Lee-Win Tai wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:00:32PM -0800, AIsler wrote:
> > Does blackbox work in Fedora and if so, can someone please instruct me
> > on how to get it up and running, as I have tried and I get nothing.
> 
> I've been using the RH9 RPM available at:
> 
> http://shrike.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=1223
> 
> I don't know why there is not an RPM for FC1.

The Blackbox rpm at FreshRPMS was build with without nls. Compiling 0.65
from source on FC1 fails even without nls support (see also
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=855440&group_id=40696&atid=428680).

You might consider Fluxbox (a fork of Blackbox) http://www.fluxbox.org/.
Quite a few people seem to like it (myself included)
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116368

Cheers, C.

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Cymon J. Cox <cymon at duke.edu>