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In Unix
Unix

Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of American Telephone & Telegraph employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson , Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna....
 computing, Blackbox is a window manager
X window manager

An X window manager is a window manager which runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems.Unlike the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows platforms, which have historically provided a vendor-controlled, fixed set of ways to control how windows and paned windows display on a Computer display, and how the...
 for the X Window System
X Window System

The X Window System is a computing software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface for networked computers. It implements the X Window System protocols and architecture and provides windowing system on raster graphics Visual display units and manages Keyboard and pointing device control functions....
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Blackbox has specific design goals, and some functionality is provided only through other applications. One example is the bbkeys hotkey
Keyboard shortcut

In computing, a keyboard shortcut is a finite set of one or more Computer keyboards that invoke a software or operating system operation when triggered by the user....
 application.

Blackbox is written in C++
C++

C++ is a general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as a middle-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level programming language and low-level programming language language features....
 and contains completely original code.. It was created by Bradley T. Hughes
Bradley T. Hughes (programmer)

Bradley T. Hughes is the creator of the Blackbox X window manager and has contributed to the NetWM specification.As a Native US-American he moved to Norway to work with Trolltech on their flagship product, Qt ....
 and is available under the MIT License
MIT License

The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , used by the MIT X Consortium.It is a Permissive_free_software_licence license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software....
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In Unix
Unix

Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of American Telephone & Telegraph employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson , Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna....
 computing, Blackbox is a window manager
X window manager

An X window manager is a window manager which runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems.Unlike the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows platforms, which have historically provided a vendor-controlled, fixed set of ways to control how windows and paned windows display on a Computer display, and how the...
 for the X Window System
X Window System

The X Window System is a computing software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface for networked computers. It implements the X Window System protocols and architecture and provides windowing system on raster graphics Visual display units and manages Keyboard and pointing device control functions....
.

Blackbox has specific design goals, and some functionality is provided only through other applications. One example is the bbkeys hotkey
Keyboard shortcut

In computing, a keyboard shortcut is a finite set of one or more Computer keyboards that invoke a software or operating system operation when triggered by the user....
 application.

Blackbox is written in C++
C++

C++ is a general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as a middle-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level programming language and low-level programming language language features....
 and contains completely original code.. It was created by Bradley T. Hughes
Bradley T. Hughes (programmer)

Bradley T. Hughes is the creator of the Blackbox X window manager and has contributed to the NetWM specification.As a Native US-American he moved to Norway to work with Trolltech on their flagship product, Qt ....
 and is available under the MIT License
MIT License

The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , used by the MIT X Consortium.It is a Permissive_free_software_licence license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software....
.

Related projects

There are a number of window managers based on Blackbox:

  • Fluxbox
    Fluxbox

    In Unix computing, Fluxbox is an X window manager fork on Blackbox 0.61.1. It aims to be lightweight and customizable, and has minimal support for graphical icon ....
  • Openbox
    Openbox

    Openbox is a free software window manager for the X Window System, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Openbox was originally derived from Blackbox 0.65.0, but has been totally rewritten in the C and since version 3.0 is not based upon any code from Blackbox....


Windows shell replacements

Although they share no code, these projects are also inspired by Blackbox.

  • BB4Win
  • bbLean
    BbLean

    bbLean is a Shell replacement for Microsoft Windows. It is a development branch of BB4Win, and like that shell, it has a minimalist look. bbLean deviates slightly from the minimalist intent of its parent by offering added functionality while retaining the basic simplicity of BB4Win....
  • xoblite


See also

  • Comparison of window managers


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