bbbutton 0.1

bbbutton is a dock application that allows you to create single application launch buttons with the image and application launch of your preference.

This is a dock application for BlackBox (and not only), that allows you to create single application launch buttons with the image and application launch of your preference.

Install/Uninstall:

tar -zxvf bbbutton-0.1.tar.gz
cd bbbutton-0.1
make
make install ( or uninstall )

OK, now what !!

Well now you can load a launch button on the Slit by running:

i.e bbbutton /here/is/my/applications/pixmap/xmms.xpm "xmms &"

You could automate the load of various "button-application" by entering this information in your .xinitrc. For example my .xinitrc looks something like this:

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bbbutton ~/.DesktopIcons/terminal.xpm
"xterm -fg white -bg black -fn 10x20 -ls &" &
sleep 1; bbbutton ~/.DesktopIcons/opera.xpm "opera &" &
sleep 1; bbbutton ~/.DesktopIcons/cd1.xpm "cd1 &" &
sleep 1; bbbutton ~/.DesktopIcons/cd2.xpm "cd2 &" &
sleep 1; bbbutton ~/.DesktopIcons/fd.xpm "fd &" &
sleep 1; bbbutton ~/.DesktopIcons/mplayer.xpm "gmplayer &" &
sleep 1; bbbutton ~/.DesktopIcons/xmms.xpm "xmms &" &
sleep 1 ; wmsmixer -w &
bbkeys -i &
display -window root ~/.DesktopIcons/birth.jpg &
exec blackbox
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Requirements:

· The image must be of type 'xpm' and size '48x48' ( XV, ImageMagic and Gimp are some applications that could do that for you)