what is it? where do I get it? changelog? huh?

blackbox links
bb home
bb configurator
bb themes
bb tools
sourceforge.net

gnu/linux links
debian gnu/linux
debian packages
garrett's sources.list
kernel.org
linux kernel howto

 

How do I get this fantastic application, I hear you say!!

Well! Let me just tell you. =:) There's several ways. First, I've made available source, RPM, source RPM, and debian packages below.... These are for the "released" versions of bbkeys. You could think of these below as "stable".

Thanks to the kind folks at Sourceforge.net, though, bbkeys also has its own CVS repository that is accessible and browsable.

To access the CVS version (latest and greatest at any given point in time) of bbkeys

  • cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbkeys login
  • cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbkeys co bbkeys

To browse and download CVS bbkeys from your web browser, go here...

And your choice of packages....

*** BIG HONKING NOTE ***

Okay then. Whoopsie. I forgot to mention this elsewhere and it makes sense to do it here.... bbkeys versions 0.8.4 and later are designed to work with blackbox 0.62.0 and greater. The reason for this is that blackbox's internals changed with 0.62.0, and to use bbkeys completely, you'll need to get bbkeys 0.8.4 or later. So then... on with the download choices... =:)

Show Me The Files (TM)

 

 

 

 

Memorable Quotes
Circa 2000-Aug-18 14:19:19 -0400 dixit Jason J. Horton:

This has probably been asked a million times, but how about switching workstations when the mouse cursor hits the edge of the screen? How much bloat is that?

I suspect the high amount of torque required either to rotate a round tabletop of sufficient size and weight to support more than one workstation, or to rotate a chair around such a table, would be a bit more than Blackbox can handle. I think that's the job for an X10 device driver. I suppose, though, that changing workstations by hitting the edge of the screen with the mouse might be a little abrupt---unless you mean actually contacting the edge of the monitor with the physical mouse, in which case that might not be so much of a surprise to the user.

In any case, it may just be easier to move your chair to the next workstation manually (or pedially, as the case me be), especially if your chair has wheels on it.

 


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