[Nottingham] Blackbox +bbkeys

[Johannes Kling]

Hello,

I use blackbox both at work and at home, so while I claim no
authority, I have some practical experience with it...

> Can, once I bring up a root-menu, use the arrows keys to navigate 
> around? Or to actually choose from the root-menu does one have to use 
> the mouse?

I assume you mean the equivalent of a "Start menu" with "root
menu"... no, arrow keys will get you nowhere, so if you you do use
that feature you'll need the mouse. In my experience, though, once you
have bbkeys set up properly you don't actually have to use it
(especially when combined with multiple desk-tops and bbpager).

To give a real-life example: complete XMMS control, starting
terminals, a browser window, my preferred editor (emacs), minimizing
and maximizing a window and some specialised jobs are all controlled
via the F* keys through BBKeys. The result is that I don' tough the
mouse unless I'm doing web-browsing.

Feel free to shoot me more questions about using blackbox, I like it
enough to evangelise it.

--Jo