Hello Howardmark,

For the B major chord, you can simply use your 1st and 3rd fingers to play the barre. For the minor chords, I say, simply try and ignore the pinky. You can try and configure it so that you only use your 1, 2 and 3 fingers. Please take a look at some of the Bm chord charts here: https://www.guitartricks.com/chords/B-chord/min

For variation 1, you can try and play the 4th finger with your 3rd finger and ignore the other notes, or try to play variation 5, which can be played with just the 1st and 3rd finger if you create a barre. I hope this makes sense, I hope this helps!