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blackbox

A small, fast, full-featured window manager for X

Blackbox is that fast, light window manager you have been looking for without all those annoying library dependencies. If you have a C++ compiler and the X Window System you can compile and use it.

homepage ↗ github: bbidulock/blackboxwm

Available in

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gentoo gitweb ↗ 0.77-r2 2 15 h details ›

Versions & arches

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0.77-r2 gentoo amd64 testing x86 testing ppc64 testing arm testing ppc testing sparc testing — view · download · history ↗
0.77-r1 gentoo amd64 stable x86 stable ppc64 stable arm stable ppc stable sparc testing — view · download · history ↗

Use flags of 0.77-r2

  • debug Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
  • nls Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)
  • static-libs Build static versions of dynamic libraries as well
  • truetype Add support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts

Runtime dependencies of 0.77-r2

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x11-libs/libXft
x11-libs/libXt
x11-libs/libX11
nls? (
>=sys-devel/gettext-0.20
)
truetype? (
media-libs/freetype
)