blackbox: where is bbkeys package?

[Rodolfo Medina]

Hi to all Debian users.

I installed blackbox in order to choose it as my window manager, but read that,
to use keystrokes in it, the bbkeys package is needed. But it seems to be
absent from Debian Stable, whereas in Sid there is but aptitude won't install
it or it is already there but doesn't run from command line.

Please help whoever can.

Thanks in advance,

Rodolfo

[August Karlstrom]

Post by Rodolfo Medina
I installed blackbox in order to choose it as my window manager, but read that,
to use keystrokes in it, the bbkeys package is needed. But it seems to be
absent from Debian Stable, whereas in Sid there is but aptitude won't install
it or it is already there but doesn't run from command line.

For some reason it was removed from the Debian repositories some
releases ago. I use the script below.

-- August


#!/bin/sh

set -e

#bbkeys is not in the software repositories so we compile if from source
instead

#install dependencies
apt-get install g++ libbt-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev make

#download and extract
cd /usr/local/src
wget
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bbkeys/bbkeys/0.9.1/bbkeys-0.9.1.tar.gz
tar xf bbkeys-0.9.1.tar.gz

#compile and install
cd /usr/local/src/bbkeys-0.9.1
./configure
make
make install

[Siard]

Post by Rodolfo Medina
I installed blackbox in order to choose it as my window manager, but
read that, to use keystrokes in it, the bbkeys package is needed.
But it seems to be absent from Debian Stable,

It looks like Blackbox has been abandoned for some time now.
I'd suggest to install its successor, Fluxbox, instead. It is very
similar. Keystrokes are configurable in ~/.fluxbox/keys
or /etc/X11/fluxbox/keys.

[Rodolfo Medina]

Post by Siard

Post by Rodolfo Medina
I installed blackbox in order to choose it as my window manager, but
read that, to use keystrokes in it, the bbkeys package is needed.
But it seems to be absent from Debian Stable,

It looks like Blackbox has been abandoned for some time now.
I'd suggest to install its successor, Fluxbox, instead. It is very
similar. Keystrokes are configurable in ~/.fluxbox/keys
or /etc/X11/fluxbox/keys.

Thanks to August and Siard. I installed openbox and started using it as window
manager.

Cheers,

Rodolfo