Blackbox

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Blackbox
Developer(s) Bradley T. Hughes [1] up to version 0.70.1_SL7, [2] onwards forked by Brian Bidulock
Stable release
0.77 [3]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 12 May 2021
Repository
Written in C++
Platform Unix-like
Type X window manager
License MIT [4]
Website Bradley T. Hughes' repository
Repository of Brian Bidulock's fork
Blackbox 0.7 Xsession running on Debian 7 Linux

Blackbox is a free and open-source stacking window manager for the X Window System. [5] [6]

Contents

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++ [4] [7] and contains completely original code. [8] It was created by Bradley T. Hughes [1] and is available under the MIT License. Blackbox has compliance with the Extended Window Manager Hints specification. [9]

The original author seems to have ceased updating the repository with the exception of a minor fix of compilation problems in 2015, [10] 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, [11] [12] [13] and it is featured in pkgsrc. [14] Despite that, some other Linux distributions still use the original source code, [15] [16] as does FreeBSD. [17]

Features

Features of the Blackbox window manager include:

There are a number of other window manager forks of Blackbox: [19]

Windows shell replacements

Although they do not share the same codebase, these projects are also inspired by Blackbox. [19] [20]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "ManPages/blackbox - Blackbox". September 9, 2015. Archived from the original on September 9, 2015. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Blackbox - Browse /Blackboxwm/Blackbox 0.70.1_SL7 at SourceForge.net".
  3. ↑ "Release 0.77". May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Blackbox - Window manager written in C++". FSF.org.
  5. ↑ Wrightson, Katherine; Merlino, Joseph (2006). Mastering UNIX. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 107–108. ISBN   9780782153033 . Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  6. ↑ Davies, Justin; Whittaker, Roger; Hagen, William von (2005). SUSE Linux 9 Bible. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 186, 276–280. ISBN   9780764588761.
  7. ↑ "Hacking Guide - Blackbox". February 14, 2018. Archived from the original on February 14, 2018. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  8. ↑ "About Blackbox". Sourceforge.net. Archived from the original on December 6, 2006.
  9. ↑ "ICCCM & EWMH Compliance". GitHub . Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Compile with clang and libc++ · bradleythughes/Blackbox@107b761". GitHub .
  11. ↑ "The Slackware Linux Project: Packages". packages.slackware.com.
  12. ↑ "Package Blackbox". Fedora Packages. Archived from the original on August 13, 2019. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Arch Linux - blackbox 0.77-1 (x86_64)". archlinux.org. Archived from the original on December 19, 2021. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  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.
  20. ↑ "BlackBox for Windows". Sourceforge.net.
  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.
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