On 2004-10-04, Stephan Schulz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using blackbox as my window manager (with XFree86 4.4/XDarwin on
> MacOS-X 10.3, but that should not really matter). I'm typically using
> three workspaces, one with local programs, one with remotely running
> programs, and one for monitoring experiments on a third cluster of
> machines.
>
> All of them have a large Gnu Emacs Window on the left and some xterms
> all over the screen... The only indicatior of which workspace is
> active is a small, half hidden text in my very small tool bar. I
> sometimes get confused ;-)
>
> I'd like to be able to use a different colour scheme on each of the
> workspaces. I checked Google, but did not find anything particularly
> useful (though thousands of sites offering thousands of styles...).
>
> Does anybody have an idea of how to achieve my goal? Just having
> different backgrounds would solve the practical problem, but
> completely independent colour schemes would be much cooler.
>
> Bye,
>
> Stephan
>
> P.S.: Follow-up to comp.windows.x only. Alternatively, non-SPAM,
> on-topic email welcome. I'll summarize.
>



Not possible with blackbox.

Switch to fluxbox and use fbdesktop to achieve what you want
http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/

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Nik

In article , Nil wrote:
>On 2004-10-04, Stephan Schulz
wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to be able to use a different colour scheme on each of the
>> workspaces. I checked Google, but did not find anything particularly
>> useful (though thousands of sites offering thousands of styles...).
>>
>> Does anybody have an idea of how to achieve my goal? Just having
>> different backgrounds would solve the practical problem, but
>> completely independent colour schemes would be much cooler.
>
>Not possible with blackbox.
>
>Switch to fluxbox and use fbdesktop to achieve what you want
>http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/

Thanks, I'll check it out. I've already downloaded the blackbox
sources, but done no serious hacking yet ;-)

Bye,

Stephan

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