Blackbox
Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox software File:Blackbox 0.7.ogv Blackbox is a free and open-source stacking window manager for the X Window System.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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++<ref name="dir-fsf" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and contains completely original code.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It was created by Bradley T. Hughes<ref name="ManPages/blackbox - Blackbox"/> and is available under the MIT License. Blackbox has compliance with the Extended Window Manager Hints specification.<ref name="compliance">Template:Cite web</ref>
The original author seems to have ceased updating the repository with the exception of a minor fix of compilation problems in 2015,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and it is featured in pkgsrc.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Despite that, some other Linux distributions still use the original source code,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> as does FreeBSD.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Related projects
There are a number of other window manager forks of Blackbox:<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>
Windows shell replacements
Although they do not share the same codebase, these projects are also inspired by Blackbox.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- BB4Win<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> (the first and most prominent clone/port of Blackbox on Windows)
- bbLean
- xoblite (has releases from 2021)
- bbZero (a branch of bbLean)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
References
External links
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- Blackbox at Free Software Directory
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