What is bbdock ?

  bbdock displays one or more PNG icons in the BlackBox/FluxBox slit from
  which you can launch the corresponding applications. It is pretty similar
  in function and appearance to bbbutton which you might want to try if you
  are reading this on a display with a color-depth below 16 bits.

How to compile

  Since you are reading this I assume you already unpacked the archive into
  some directory.

  ./configure
  make
  su
  make install

  For more options try ./configure --help

  You need X11 libraries & headers and libpng-devel. If anything fails,
  just drop me a line at mf@markusfisch.de ;-)

Configuration

  You may invoke bbdock either with your icons specified on command line
  or simply create a short configuration file (.bbdockrc) in your home
  directory.

  The syntax for a command-line-argument or a line in the configuration
  file is equal:

  IMAGEFILE:COMMAND[:WINDOWTITLE;[:IDLE]]

  IMAGEFILE   - should be path and filename of some PNG icon
  COMMAND     - a script or binary to execute
  WINDOWTITLE - is a semicolon-seperated list of case-insensitive
                window-titles of corresponding application-windows. Those
                strings may contain wildcard characters (* and/or ?) to
                exclusively identify a window. By providing this list you
                make the icon exclusive to one instance of course. Clicking
                on already launched icons will raise the corresponding
                window instead of invoking a new instance.
  IDLE        - idle time after triggering one icon in miliseconds, instead
                of using numbers you may also use the terms "lame" (~ 10 s),
                "slow" (~ 5 s), "fast" (~ 500 ms) or "fastest" (~ 250 ms)

  For example, run it from command line this way:

  $ bbdock "~/.icons/firefox.png:firefox:*Firefox"

  Sample out of a ~/.bbdockrc:

  ~/.icons/terminal.png:xterm::1
  ~/.icons/firefox.png:firefox:*Firefox

  To start by configuration file, just run bbdock. Type "bbdock -h" for
  a detailed view of general options.

Requirement

  The images should be not much greater than 48x48 pixels and must be in
  PNG format. Use images with transparency to get the most out of it.

  You need libpng-devel to compile this software. The raise-window
  function is only available to window managers which implement the EWMH
  specification.

Bugs

  Currently there are only two known bugs you might run into:

  If you're using BlackBox > 0.70 you need to patch it in order to make it
  work correctly. Just insert the following code after line 250 into
  blackbox-0.70.0/src/Slit.cc and recompile BlackBox:

      if ((texture.texture() & bt::Texture::Gradient) && frame.pixmap)
        XSetWindowBackgroundPixmap(display, frame.window, frame.pixmap);
      else if ((texture.texture() & bt::Texture::Solid))
        XSetWindowBackground(display, frame.window,
          texture.color1().pixel(screen->screenNumber()));

  FluxBox < 0.9 may fail to raise applications that are exclusive. Update
  to FluxBox 0.9 to fix this problem.

Links

  bbdock - http://bbdock.nethence.com
  BlackBox - http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/
  FluxBox - http://www.fluxbox.org/
  BBButton - http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/button/
  wmctrl - http://sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/

Licencing

  See the COPYING file

Authors

  See the AUTHORS file