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I have been using the Blackbox Window Manager for more than ten years now and I'm quite happy with it. I really like it's austere looks. http://www.stokebloke.

I have been using the Blackbox Window Manager for more than ten years now and I'm quite happy with it. I really like it's austere looks. http://www.stokebloke.com/cygwin/blackbox0701.jpg http://www.stokebloke.com/cygwin/blackbox0701.jpg

anonymouskimmer 3y ago
Hotlink Preventor The url /hotlink.php cannot be served. Referrer was https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ You have tried to link directly to software or images from StokeBloke.com. This is not allowed. Please follow the menu on the left to find what you were looking for. My software is accessible from the Software link. Video software is accessible from the Video downloads link. Blackbox 0.65.0 tarball for cygwin is accessible from the cygwin link.
- celsoazevedo 3y ago
  Alt link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160810141012id_/http://stokebloke.com/cygwin/blackbox0701.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20160810141012id_/http://stokebl...
- 2b3a51 3y ago
  Try https://www.k58.uk/pages/images/blackbox.png https://www.k58.uk/pages/images/blackbox.png [around 11Kb] [Fun fact: about 15 years ago, 30% of the total bandwidth from my vanity home page was produced by a picture that some teenager had linked to from a death metal forum. It was just a snap of a bit of wall art locally.]
  - augustk 3y ago
    Thanks! That's an even better image showing the default theme.
    - 2b3a51 3y ago
      A default (i.e. full) Slackware install has blackbox, fluxbox, fvwm, window-maker and icewm available by default along side kde and xfce desktop environments. And twm. And hidden away, not available from `xwmconfig` for some reason, lurks mwm.
2b3a51 3y ago
I quite like Fluxbox which is based on blackbox. If you use network-manager to manage wifi &c the nm-applet will display in the Fluxbox panel and I use cbaticon to monitor battery. No extra panels or docks. https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/attachment.php?attachmentid=38995&d=1653904273 https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/attachment.php?atta...
- augustk 3y ago
  If you prefer a freestanding network application, connman-gtk is an alternative.
- HeckFeck 3y ago
  Fluxbox + PcManFM + automount gives a fairly complete and modern-feeling desktop on Linux. The themes are also opinionated and quite varied, something to suit all tastes: http://tenr.de/styles/?i=1 http://tenr.de/styles/?i=1 GP should find his fit here.
  - amatecha 3y ago
    Aww yeah. I used to use fluxbox years ago.. good memories. Minimal, awesome and customizable indeed :)
- toadi 3y ago
  This brings back memories. Was linux only since the 90s until 2009. I went to mac and now I just use windows with wsl2. Fluxbox was my favorite window manager.
tored 3y ago
I used this Windows version of Blackbox many years ago. Perhaps time try again. https://bb4win.sourceforge.net/ https://bb4win.sourceforge.net/

anonymouskimmer 3y ago

Hotlink Preventor The url /hotlink.php cannot be served. Referrer was https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ You have tried to link directly to software or images from StokeBloke.com. This is not allowed. Please follow the menu on the left to find what you were looking for. My software is accessible from the Software link. Video software is accessible from the Video downloads link. Blackbox 0.65.0 tarball for cygwin is accessible from the cygwin link.

celsoazevedo 3y ago
Alt link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160810141012id_/http://stokebloke.com/cygwin/blackbox0701.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20160810141012id_/http://stokebl...
2b3a51 3y ago
Try https://www.k58.uk/pages/images/blackbox.png https://www.k58.uk/pages/images/blackbox.png [around 11Kb] [Fun fact: about 15 years ago, 30% of the total bandwidth from my vanity home page was produced by a picture that some teenager had linked to from a death metal forum. It was just a snap of a bit of wall art locally.]
- augustk 3y ago
  Thanks! That's an even better image showing the default theme.
  - 2b3a51 3y ago
    A default (i.e. full) Slackware install has blackbox, fluxbox, fvwm, window-maker and icewm available by default along side kde and xfce desktop environments. And twm. And hidden away, not available from `xwmconfig` for some reason, lurks mwm.

2b3a51 3y ago

I quite like Fluxbox which is based on blackbox. If you use network-manager to manage wifi &c the nm-applet will display in the Fluxbox panel and I use cbaticon to monitor battery. No extra panels or docks. https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/attachment.php?attachmentid=38995&d=1653904273 https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/attachment.php?atta...

augustk 3y ago
If you prefer a freestanding network application, connman-gtk is an alternative.
HeckFeck 3y ago
Fluxbox + PcManFM + automount gives a fairly complete and modern-feeling desktop on Linux. The themes are also opinionated and quite varied, something to suit all tastes: http://tenr.de/styles/?i=1 http://tenr.de/styles/?i=1 GP should find his fit here.
- amatecha 3y ago
  Aww yeah. I used to use fluxbox years ago.. good memories. Minimal, awesome and customizable indeed :)
toadi 3y ago
This brings back memories. Was linux only since the 90s until 2009. I went to mac and now I just use windows with wsl2. Fluxbox was my favorite window manager.

tored 3y ago

I used this Windows version of Blackbox many years ago. Perhaps time try again. https://bb4win.sourceforge.net/ https://bb4win.sourceforge.net/