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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. Keeping a low profile? by Attackman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Looking at their homepage (assuming you still can, as this is an early post), it looks as if nothing's been updated since November of 2004. The new version is available on the download page, though you'd think they'd post something to the effect of ".70 is now up" right on the front page.
    I can only assume these cats are looking to keep a low profile, or to keep a static homepage that they never have to touch.
    Nuances of their site design and motives aside, I'm enticed to try this out.

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    Ignore the rantings above. Poster is an idiot.