Blackbox

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Blackbox 0.7 Xsession running on Debian 7 Linux

Blackbox is a free and open-source stacking window manager for the X Window System.[1][2]

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++[3][4] and contains completely original code.[5] It was created by Bradley T. Hughes[6] and is available under the MIT License. Blackbox has compliance with the Extended Window Manager Hints specification.[7]

The original author seems to have ceased updating the repository with the exception of a minor fix of compilation problems in 2015,[8] 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,[9][10][11] and it is featured in pkgsrc.[12] Despite that, some other Linux distributions still use the original source code,[13][14] as does FreeBSD.[15]

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[16]

Related projects

There are a number of other window manager forks of Blackbox:[17]

Windows shell replacements

Although they do not share the same codebase, these projects are also inspired by Blackbox.[17][18]

  • BB4Win[19] (the first and most prominent clone/port of Blackbox on Windows)
  • bbLean
  • xoblite (has releases from 2021)
  • bbZero (a branch of bbLean)[20]

See also

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References

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External links

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  • Blackbox at Free Software Directory

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