In Unix computing, Blackbox is a stacking window manager for the X Window System.
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][5] and contains completely original code.[6] 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.[7]
Features
Features of the Blackbox window manager include:
- A stacking window manager
- Written in C++
- Freely available under the MIT licence
- Compliance with the Extended Window Manager Hints Specification
- Titlebars have minimize, maximize, and close buttons
- Support for themes
- No support for desktop shortcuts
Related projects
There are a number of other window manager forks of Blackbox:[8]
Windows shell replacements
Although they do not share the same codebase, these projects are also inspired by Blackbox.[9]
- BB4Win (the first and most prominent clone/port of Blackbox on Windows)
- bbLean (a branch of BB4Win, currently the most actively developed)
- xoblite
See also
- Perbandingan -- X window managers
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