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blackbox-0.70.1p13

small & pretty window manager for 8 and more bits displays

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Description

Blackbox is yet another addition to the list of window managers for the X Consortium's X Windowing System Version 11 Release 6. Blackbox is built with C++, sharing no common code with any other window manager (even though the graphics implementation is similar to that of WindowMaker). It features small code size, a fast interface with simple menus, multiple workspaces, and decorated windows , built-in graphics code to render solids, gradients and bevels on the fly when needed, and more.

Package information

Ports path
x11/blackbox
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
x11
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64, m88k, sh

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