Blackbox

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Blackbox

Screenshot of Blackbox.
Developed by Bradley T. Hughes[1]
Latest release 0.70.1 [2] / November 3, 2005[3]
Platform Unix-like
Type X window manager
License MIT[4]
Website blackboxwm.sourceforge.net

In Unix computing, Blackbox is a window manager for the X Window System. It is minimalist and popular among those seeking a fast, clean and light environment.

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++[5][4] and contains completely original code.[6] It was created by Bradley T. Hughes[1] and is available under the MIT License.

Contents

Related projects

There are a number of window managers based on Blackbox[7]:

See also: Comparison of window managers

Windows shell replacements

Although they share no code, these projects are also inspired by blackbox.

References

  1. ^ a b ManPages/blackbox
  2. ^ Download Blackbox
  3. ^ SourceForge.net : blackbox
  4. ^ a b Blackbox - Window manager written in C++
  5. ^ Blackbox Hacking Guide
  6. ^ About Blackbox
  7. ^ Related Projects

External links

This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.


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