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'''Blackbox''' is that fast, lightweight window manager for the X Window System, you have been looking for without all those annoying library dependencies. Blackbox is built with C++ and contains completely original code (even though the graphics implementation is similar to that of Window Maker).
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'''Blackbox''' is a fast, lightweight window manager for the X Window System, with a minimum of external library dependencies. (Compare with [[xfce]], contrast with [[KDE]] and [[Gnome]], both of which are more full-featured but drastically more heavyweight and complex.)
Blackbox official site - http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/
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Blackbox is built with C++ and contains completely original code (even though the graphics implementation is similar to that of Window Maker). Blackbox's official site is at http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ .
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You may also be interested in the [http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net fluxbox] XWM, which forked from blackbox at 0.61.1 and claims to be more full-featured while remaining very lightweight.
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Latest revision as of 17:25, 25 August 2012

Blackbox is a fast, lightweight window manager for the X Window System, with a minimum of external library dependencies. (Compare with xfce, contrast with KDE and Gnome, both of which are more full-featured but drastically more heavyweight and complex.)

Blackbox is built with C++ and contains completely original code (even though the graphics implementation is similar to that of Window Maker). Blackbox's official site is at http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ .

You may also be interested in the fluxbox XWM, which forked from blackbox at 0.61.1 and claims to be more full-featured while remaining very lightweight.

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