A new release of Blackbox in the latest 0.70 series is now out: 0.70.1 cumulates new features and bugfixes added to CVS over the last 8 months. Read on for a list of the most notable changes.
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what do u hav against blackbox? personally its the only out of the box wm i can install and keep my sanity. everything else is bloated, a pain in the but to configure to anything usable, or ugly at best.
blackbox is my favorite, fluxbox and evolution being good. then i spose xfce, and sumwhere just above completly unusable i would stick gnome, kde being completly unusable without more work then is tolerable.
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blackbox is my favorite, fluxbox and evolution being good. then i spose xfce, and sumwhere just above completly unusable i would stick gnome, kde being completly unusable without more work then is tolerable.
you aren't differentiating between wm's and de's... kde's wm has a few more features than metacity; at least, that are enabled by default or that are easily configurable.
my favorite window manager is xfwm4: attractive themes, excellent defaults, and it has all of the quirky features that I use often (mouse wheel for window shading, alt left & right clicks). As it turns out, its not particularly well written (or at least, tests have shown it to be pretty slow), but as long as it *feels* quick (which it does), i really don't mind it taking a few extra cycles.
right now (and for the past few months) i am using xfwm4 with kde and i am happy with the ballance of features, configurability, and performance.
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Gnome and KDE are not window managers. They include window managers along with the other applictions which make up their respective desktop environments. Metacity and KWM. So long as Blackbox implements the same standards (probably safe to assume it does) used by Metacity and KWM then you can use it in a Gnome/KDE desktop instead of their default window managers.
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I find it hard to decide between Blackbox and Fluxbox. At the moment I lean towards Blackbox (with bbkeys) because it seems more stable than Fluxbox, but this might change once Fluxbox reaches 1.0 release. I like the built-in feature set in Fluxbox but the stability varies a lot between different Fluxbox releases while Blackbox has always been very reliable. Anyway, it's Blackbox or Fluxbox for me -- so far I haven't much liked Openbox. But if Openbox becomes easier to configure (possibly with a gui config tool), then it will be a tough decision between the three *boxes.
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