Blackbox

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This article is about the computer software. For other uses of this term, see Black box (disambiguation).
Blackbox

Screenshot of Blackbox
Developed by Bradley T. Hughes[1]
Latest release 0.70.1 [2] / November 3, 2005[3]
Platform Unix-like
Type X window manager
License MIT[4]
Website blackboxwm.sourceforge.net

In Unix computing, Blackbox is a 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++[5][4] and contains completely original code.[6] It was created by Bradley T. Hughes[1] and is available under the MIT License.

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[edit] Related projects

There are a number of window managers based on Blackbox[7]:

[edit] Windows shell replacements

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

[edit] See also

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