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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. Lightweight? Bloated, I say! by Urkki · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I personally think that all these window managers with so called "features" are just a big bloat. I use evilwm.

    Hint: if you try it, get the source packet (eg `apt-get source evilwm`) and compile yourself, because you probably want to change some of the key bindings, at least if you have non-US keyboard ;-)