Blackbox

Blackbox
DeveloperBradley T. Hughes up to version 0.70.1_SL7, onwards forked by Brian Bidulock
Stable release
0.77 Edit this on Wikidata / 12 May 2021; 5 years ago (12 May 2021)
Written inC++
PlatformUnix-like
TypeX window manager
LicenseMIT
WebsiteBradley T. Hughes' repository
Repository of Brian Bidulock's fork
Repository
Blackbox 0.7 Xsession running on Debian 7 Linux

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:

There are a number of other window manager forks of Blackbox:

Windows shell replacements

Although they do not share the same codebase, these projects are also inspired by Blackbox.

See also

References

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  14. ↑ "pkgsrc.se | The NetBSD package collection". pkgsrc.se.
  15. ↑ "Ubuntu – Error". packages.ubuntu.com.
  16. ↑ "Debian -- Details of package blackbox in sid".
  17. ↑ "[ports] Index of /head/x11-wm/blackbox". svnweb.freebsd.org.
  18. ↑ "Window Managers for X: Blackbox". www.xwinman.org. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  19. 1 2 "Related Projects - Blackbox". October 26, 2017. Archived from the original on October 26, 2017. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
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  21. ↑ "Customizing Your PC's Desktop - ExtremeTech". www.extremetech.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  22. ↑ "GitHub - xzero450/bbclean-xzero450". GitHub. February 6, 2016. Retrieved January 16, 2019.