Developer(s) | Bradley T. Hughes [1] up to version 0.70.1_SL7, [2] onwards forked by Brian Bidulock |
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Stable release | |
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 is a free and open-source stacking window manager for the X Window System. [5] [6]
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 of the Blackbox window manager include:
There are a number of other window manager forks of Blackbox: [19]
Although they do not share the same codebase, these projects are also inspired by Blackbox. [19] [20]
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