Blackbox Explained

Blackbox
Screenshot Size:300px
Developer:Bradley T. Hughes[1] up to version 0.70.1_SL7,[2] onwards forked by Brian Bidulock
Discontinued:no
Programming Language:C++
Platform:Unix-like
Genre:X window manager
License:MIT[3]
Website:

Blackbox is a free and open-source stacking window manager for the X Window System.[4] [5]

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++[6] and contains completely original code.[7] 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.[8]

The original author seems to have ceased updating the repository with the exception of a minor fix of compilation problems in 2015,[9] 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,[10] [11] [12] and it is featured in pkgsrc.[13] Despite that, some other Linux distributions still use the original source code,[14] [15] as does FreeBSD.[16]

Features

Features of the Blackbox window manager include:

Related projects

There are a number of other window manager forks of Blackbox:[18]

Windows shell replacements

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

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ManPages/blackbox - Blackbox. https://web.archive.org/web/20150909080254/http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ManPages/blackbox. dead. September 9, 2015. September 9, 2015. January 16, 2019.
  2. Web site: Blackbox - Browse /Blackboxwm/Blackbox 0.70.1_SL7 at SourceForge.net.
  3. Web site: Blackbox - Window manager written in C++. FSF.org.
  4. Book: Wrightson . Katherine . Merlino . Joseph . Mastering UNIX . 2006 . John Wiley & Sons . 9780782153033 . 107–108 . January 16, 2019 . en.
  5. Book: Davies . Justin . Whittaker . Roger . Hagen . William von . SUSE Linux 9 Bible . 2005 . John Wiley & Sons . 9780764588761 . 186, 276–280 . en.
  6. Web site: Hacking Guide - Blackbox. https://web.archive.org/web/20180214041749/http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/HackingGuide. dead. February 14, 2018. February 14, 2018. January 16, 2019.
  7. Web site: About Blackbox. Sourceforge.net. https://web.archive.org/web/20061206102805/http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/AboutBlackbox. December 6, 2006.
  8. Web site: ICCCM & EWMH Compliance . . February 20, 2021 .
  9. Web site: Compile with clang and libc++ · bradleythughes/Blackbox@107b761. GitHub.
  10. Web site: The Slackware Linux Project: Packages. packages.slackware.com.
  11. Web site: Fedora Packages . Package Blackbox . August 13, 2019 . August 13, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190813012647/https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/blackbox/sources/spec . dead .
  12. Web site: Arch Linux - blackbox 0.77-1 (x86_64). archlinux.org. July 6, 2021. December 19, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211219145015/https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/blackbox/. dead.
  13. Web site: pkgsrc.se | The NetBSD package collection. pkgsrc.se.
  14. Web site: Ubuntu – Error. packages.ubuntu.com.
  15. Web site: Debian -- Details of package blackbox in sid.
  16. Web site: [ports] Index of /head/x11-wm/blackbox]. svnweb.freebsd.org.
  17. Web site: Window Managers for X: Blackbox. www.xwinman.org. January 16, 2019.
  18. Web site: Related Projects - Blackbox. https://web.archive.org/web/20171026143823/http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/RelatedProjects. dead. October 26, 2017. October 26, 2017. January 16, 2019.
  19. Web site: BlackBox for Windows. Sourceforge.net.
  20. Web site: Customizing Your PC's Desktop - ExtremeTech. www.extremetech.com. January 16, 2019.
  21. Web site: GitHub - xzero450/bbclean-xzero450. February 6, 2016. GitHub. January 16, 2019.

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