blackbox
Package blackbox-0.77 was released under MIT license 2021-05-11.
This is a fork of the original blackbox CVS that is on Sourceforge.
This fork is hosted on GitHub. What it includes is all changes made
on the official blackbox CVS repository on branch blackbox-0_70_2cvs, as
well as patches collected from pdl-linux, Debian, the blackbox bug list,
other GitHub forks. It also includes enhanced EWMH/ICCCM compliance.
Release
This is the blackbox-0.77 package, released 2021-05-11. This release, and
the latest version, can be obtained from GitHub, using a command such as:
$> git clone https://github.com/bbidulock/blackboxwm.git
Please see the NEWS file for release notes and history of user visible changes for the current version, and the ChangeLog file for a more detailed history of implementation changes. The TODO file lists features not yet implemented and other outstanding items.
The file COMPLIANCE lists the current state of EWMH/ICCCM compliance.
Please see the INSTALL file for installation instructions.
When working from git(1), please use this file. An abbreviated
installation procedure that works for most applications appears below.
This release is published under the MIT/X Consortium license that can be found in the file LICENSE. This release is published under GPLv3. Please see the license in the file COPYING.
Quick Start
The quickest and easiest way to get blackbox up and running is to run the following commands:
$> git clone https://github.com/bbidulock/blackboxwm.git blackbox
$> cd blackbox
$> ./autogen.sh
$> ./configure
$> make
$> make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
This will configure, compile and install blackbox the quickest. For those who
like to spend the extra 15 seconds reading ./configure --help, some compile
time options can be turned on and off before the build.
For general information on GNU's ./configure, see the file INSTALL.
Configuring blackbox
The next thing most users want to do after installing blackbox is to configure the colors, fonts, menus, etc. to their liking. This is covered by the files README, README.menu and README.style. These files give detailed information on how to customize your new window manager.
Included utilities
Currently, the only included utilities are a program named bsetroot(1)
and a script called bsetbg(1). bsetroot is a replacement for
xsetroot(1), minus a few options. The difference between xsetroot(1)
and bsetroot is that bsetroot has been coded for multiple screens (e.g.
multi-headed displays), where as the stock xsetroot(1) is not. The
bsetbg script acts as a wrapper for most of the popular programs used to
set background pixmaps, making it possible for styles to provide a
machine-independent rootCommand.
Third-party utilities
With the start of the 0.60.x series blackbox no longer handles any
keyboard shortcuts; instead it supports a communication protocol which
allows other programs to handle these and related tasks. If you'd like to
be able to use keyboard shortcuts with blackbox, bbkeys(1) can
provide you with all the previous functionality and more.
If you're looking for a GUI with which to configure your blackbox menu
and/or styles, check out bbconf(1). bbconf(1) is a QT program
that does just that, as well as providing a GUI for editing your key
bindings for the above mentioned bbkeys(1).
Running
Read the manual page after installation:
man blackbox
Issues
Report issues on GitHub here.