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Blackbox (Finally) Updated

Posted by timothy on from the occasional-and-careful dept.

mpeg4codec writes "OSNews reported earlier this month that the lightweight Blackbox window manager has been updated to 0.70. Among the new features are EWMH compliance, anti-aliased fonts, unicode support, and backwards compatibility with previous versions' styles. Of course, it brings you all these new features (well, some are optional) while retaining its small binary size, small memory footprint, and short list of dependencies. I for one think it's about time."

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  1. Blackbox is the best! by Tim_F · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Next to KDE 3.4 this is my favourite Window Manager of all time. And it doesn't have all the hideous widgets from Gtk based WMs. They sure are ugly.

  2. Blackbox ... blah. by Jkames · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    fluxbox and openbox are much better than blackbox anyways!

  3. omg "anti-aliased fonts" so much for cutting edge! by v3xt0r · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    no pun intended

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  4. Re:So... by un1xl0ser · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You fucking moderators wouldn't know humor if it bit you on your ass.

    Whoever modded this offtopic should be shot.

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