Overview

bbLean

It has a new menu system with user frienly popup delay, support for shellfolders, rightclick context menus, scrolling with button or mousewheel, drag and drop and keyboard navigation.

Check it out!


New in 1.12

 

Quick Start


Later:


When everything is running smooth:

 

Control

The Blackbox for Windows shell consists of these GUI elements:

 

Desktop

Mouse event Effect
right-click show main menu
right-click with shift show workspaces menu
left-click hide not pinned menus and bring pinned menus on top
drop image display image as wallpaper
with shift held down stretch image
with control held down tile image
 

Toolbar

Mouse event Effect
right-click show main menu
right-click with shift show options menu
right-click with ctrl show workspaces menu
ctrl + left-drag drag toolbar
ctrl + double-left-click reset position
double-click on clock date & time
drop stylefile apply style

You can turn transparency on/off or hide the toolbar in the config menu.

 

Menus

Mouse event Effect
right-click on on either desktop or toolbar open main menu
right click on titlebar close this menu
click on desktop background
click on any window
close all (not pinned) menus
left-click the titlebar and drag move or pin menu
double-left-click on the titlebar toggle on top property
(default setting in the config menu)
left-drag of folder iten drag item elsewhere
Keyboard navigation Effect
up/down/left/right arrows navigate
crtl+up/ctrl+down/page-up/page-down navigate faster
home/end navigate
letters A-Z,0-9,... shortcut (underscored or first letter)
enter or space activate item
windows 'app key' show context menu
tab cycle through pinned menus
F5 update folder
escape close menu

Notes:

 

Context Menus

Mouse event Effect
right-click on menu item open context menu for file or folder
shift + right-click on menu's titlebar open folder's context menu
 

BBSystembar

Mouse event Effect
left click activate task
right click minimize task
win + left click close task
double left/middle-click move to next workspace
double left/middle-click with shift moves to previous workspace
alt + left-click toggle task display modes
alt + right-click toggle 'current tasks only' mode
shift + right-click show options menu

To change a mode option permanently, select it from the menu.

The included BBSystembar uses the toolbar transparency settings.

 

Plugins

Tested plugins with bbLean:

Plugin Author Note
bbAnalog Mortar nice analogue clock, with alarm!
bbColor qwilk style colors for the windows captionbar
bbDDE DevTeam shell services for blackbox as default shell
- bblean has it now built-in, will not be loaded
bbHook DevTeam *nix-like window-shading - do not use with bbWinSkin
bbIcons Tres`ni icons to start programs, sitting on desktop or in the slit
bbKeys DevTeam configurable keyboard shortcuts - included
bbNote grischka little stylized editor for bb-configuration files and other things
bbPager NC-17 controls workspaces and tasks - use a new version
bbShelf Fatman organizes your shortcuts
bbSlider psyci volume control
bbSlit Tres`ni a container window, where you can put other plugins into.
bbSoundFx qwilk plays sound snippets on various events
bbStyle NC-17 switches styles automatically
- use a new version
- set 'inherit toolbar height' to false
- set 'smartwallpaper' to false in extensions.rc
bbSystembar DevTeam taskbar and systemtray - included
bbSystembarEx BladeStaylor advanced taskbar and systemtray, very configurable
bbTray DevTeam systemtray, may be loaded into slit
bbWeather Fatman 'dont go out the door, use bbweather instead...'
bbWinSkin DevTeam skins windows accordingly to the current style
Broambox Tres`ni little commandbox

plugin overview: bb4win.sourceforge.net/doc/plugins.php
qwilk's plugin page: desktopian.org/bb/plugins.html
bb4win latest builts: bb4win.sourceforge.net/latest/Latest

 

Set as default shell

bbLean runs equally well on top of explorer or as your default shell.

To install bbLean as the default, use the install option from the included default menu or type in the commandline:

    'blackbox -install'

To reset explorer as shell, use the uninstall option from the included default menu or type in the commandline:

    'blackbox -uninstall'

In either case, the new setting will take effect after the next reboot.

 

Conditions of use

bbLean is copyright 2003 by grischka

bbLean and Blackbox for Windows is free software, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL version 2 or later).

 

Links

Site Link
bblean bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean
bb4win www.bb4win.org
forum forums.loose-screws.com/viewforum.php?f=14
plugins overview bb4win.sourceforge.net/doc/plugins.php
latest plugin versions bb4win.sourceforge.net/latest/Latest
bb4win.sourceforge.net/plugins
desktopian.org/bb/plugins.html
grischka's site grischka.port5.com
email grischka grischka@users.sourceforge.net