Screenshot of Blackbox | |
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 | 0.77[3] ![]() |
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 |
In Unix computing, 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[9] and is available under the MIT License. Blackbox has compliance with the Extended Window Manager Hints specification.[10]
The original author seems to have ceased updating the repository with the exception of a minor fix of compilation problems in 2015,[11] 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,[12][13][14] and it is featured in pkgsrc.[15] Despite that, some other Linux distributions still use the original source code,[16][17] as does FreeBSD.[18]
Features of the Blackbox window manager include:
There are a number of other window manager forks of Blackbox:[20]
Although they do not share the same codebase, these projects are also inspired by Blackbox.[20][21]