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Blackbox

Free and open-source stacking window manager for the X Window System

Free and open-source stacking window manager for the X Window System

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nameBlackbox
screenshotBlackbox on Debian.png
screenshot size300px
captionScreenshot of Blackbox
developerBradley T. Hughes up to version 0.70.1_SL7, onwards forked by Brian Bidulock
discontinuedno
latest release version
latest release date
latest preview version
latest preview date
programming language[C++](c)
platformUnix-like
genreX window manager
licenseMIT
website
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the computer software

Blackbox is a free and open-source stacking window manager for the X Window System.

Blackbox has specific design goals, and some functionality is provided only through other applications. One example is the bbkeys hotkey application.

Blackbox is written in C++ and contains completely original code. It was created by Bradley T. Hughes and is available under the MIT License. Blackbox has compliance with the Extended Window Manager Hints specification.

The original author seems to have ceased updating the repository with the exception of a minor fix of compilation problems in 2015, leaving the last original version at 0.70.1. However an actively maintained fork by Brian Bidulock has been picked up by several Linux distributions in its place, and it is featured in pkgsrc. Despite that, some other Linux distributions still use the original source code, as does FreeBSD.

Features

Features of the Blackbox window manager include:

  • A stacking window manager
  • Written in C++
  • Freely available under the MIT license
  • Compliance with the Extended Window Manager Hints Specification
  • Title bars have minimize, maximize, and close buttons
  • Support for simple themes
  • Support for color changes
  • No support for desktop shortcuts
  • Compatibility with both KDE and GNOME

References

References

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  2. "Blackbox - Browse /Blackboxwm/Blackbox 0.70.1_SL7 at SourceForge.net".
  3. "Blackbox - Window manager written in C++". FSF.org.
  4. (2006). "Mastering UNIX". John Wiley & Sons.
  5. (2005). "SUSE Linux 9 Bible". John Wiley & Sons.
  6. (February 14, 2018). "Hacking Guide - Blackbox".
  7. "About Blackbox". Sourceforge.net.
  8. "ICCCM & EWMH Compliance".
  9. "Compile with clang and libc++ · bradleythughes/Blackbox@107b761".
  10. "The Slackware Linux Project: Packages".
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  12. "Arch Linux - blackbox 0.77-1 (x86_64)".
  13. "pkgsrc.se | The NetBSD package collection".
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  15. "Debian -- Details of package blackbox in sid".
  16. "[ports] Index of /head/x11-wm/blackbox".
  17. "Window Managers for X: Blackbox".
  18. (October 26, 2017). "Related Projects - Blackbox".
  19. "BlackBox for Windows". Sourceforge.net.
  20. "Customizing Your PC's Desktop - ExtremeTech".
  21. (February 6, 2016). "GitHub - xzero450/bbclean-xzero450".
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