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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. Re:IceWM by Given+M.+Sur · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  2. Fingers crossed. by greppy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe there's hope for the Duke yet!

  3. Re:Whoopie YAFWMFL by hikerhat · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yet another freaking window manager for Linux. Why not improve on the existing ones instead of trying to fill bogus niches.

    Yeah. What are we paying these opensource developers for anyway? Oh, wait...

  4. So... by nacturation · · Score: 3, Funny

    How exactly is this going to enable me to make free long distance calls?

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  5. Re:IceWM by Mad_Rain · · Score: 3, Funny

    at least you had the common sense to leave out Gnome and KDE from your rant. :D

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  6. Oblig. by PoprocksCk · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, the window manages YOU!

  7. Apostriphication by LadyLucky · · Score: 4, Funny
    I for one would like to congratulate the article submitter in having possibly the first correct use of the apostrophe in the history of Slashdot.

    Very Good!

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    1. Re:Apostriphication by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

      "I for one would like to congratulate the article submitter in having possibly the first correct use of the apostrophe in the history of Slashdot."

      Next up: Commas!

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  8. Re:This is not a troll... by grammar+fascist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Blackbox is extremely stable, has no footprint...

    No footprint? That's about as amazing and cool as write-only memory!

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  9. Re:They took too long by Nightreaver · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too bad that Openbox has already killed Fluxbox off, then.