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Blackbox (Finally) Updated
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."
How is this informative?
Okay... so my post will be ultra-informative:
Openbox is where it's at. It's lightweight, fast, and has more essential features that blackbox is missing.
Fluxbox is where it's at. It's lightweight, fast, and has more essential features that blackbox is missing.
Enlightenment is where it's at. It's lightweight, fast, and has more essential features that blackbox is missing.
FVWM is where it's at. It's lightweight, fast, and has more essential features that blackbox is missing.
Window Maker is where it's at. It's lightweight, fast, and has more essential features that blackbox is missing.
Metacity is where it's at. It's lightweight, fast, and has more essential features that blackbox is missing.
Ratpoison is where it's at. It's lightweight, fast, and has more essential features that blackbox is missing.
and so on...
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Maybe there's hope for the Duke yet!
Yeah. What are we paying these opensource developers for anyway? Oh, wait...
How exactly is this going to enable me to make free long distance calls?
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at least you had the common sense to leave out Gnome and KDE from your rant. :D
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In Soviet Russia, the window manages YOU!
and had much of the same polish that existed in CDE
... nationality.
arrrgh! limestone has more polish than CDE ever did. You sir are every salesman's dream come true.
Unless of course you meant Polish, which is an entirely different
I wouldn't worry about this fool. I use blackbox, thus I am a knob. If it wasn't for knobs, nobody would be able to use doors. We all have our places in this world...
Like him, for example... What would we ever do without toilets?
-If God wanted people to be better than me, he would have made them that way.
Don't worry, they are not going to run out of "digital ink" anytime soon; all these stories you are not interested in are not really impacting your quality of life.
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Before that I think it was Enlightenment.
Enlightenment was never the window manager for GNOME. In the beginning GNOME eschewed all forms of standard window managers. Any window manager was sufficient (as long as it followed the horrible GNOME window manager specs, but I digress). Enlightenment was popular because it had a lot of eyecandy, but it was never the official window manager for GNOME.
Then along came Redhat, who decried that Enlightenment should be the official WM for GNOME. Rasterman told Redhat to get stuffed and took off. The Havoc thought, "gee we should have a standard window manager, that way we could make our sucky WM specs even worse than they already are", and sawfish/sawmill was born.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
Actually, when Knuth dies the universe ends.
"There are hundreds of game theorists at the gates, sir, and they want to hold an election!"
Blackbox is extremely stable, has no footprint...
No footprint? That's about as amazing and cool as write-only memory!
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
Too bad that Openbox has already killed Fluxbox off, then.
And it just occurred to me that "small size" is not really a big selling point.
The spam in my inbox begs to differ.
anti-aliased fonts! thats just bloat! we should learn to listen and type in binary (beep beep BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!)
seriously though i prefer blackbox to fluxbox and openbox (if i ever break kde or need my resources i use blackbox)