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Tired of the Windows environment? BlackBox 4 Win will save you

In connection with this post, and with attempts to choose WM for an old computer with a freshly installed FreeBSD, I remembered one old, but still interesting thing. Or rather, BlackBox is a lightweight window manager, like two drops of sparkling water, similar to all the other * boxes, and at the same time so open-source, and cross-platform, that there is even for Windows ...

So, the blackbox is a complete, lightweight, and very flexible replacement for the Windows shell. For those who have not communicated with him before, it may seem rather inconvenient, but these are only first impressions, and after getting used to it it starts to seem that it is more convenient and impossible to think up.

BlackBox provides us with:

For starters, I throw a couple more clickable screenshots:

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And now the actual links:
Project page
Forums
Third- party plug-ins - a great many
Styles and themes, volpaypery, other ryushechki
BlackBox itself is a BBlean build, easy and pleasant, there are not many plug-ins, so there is room for creativity!

PS BlackBox is suitable in the first place, lovers of poking around, and customize everything by hand, and by yourself. Also, I think * nix lovers, it will be more pleasant to see it as a WM under Windows.

PPS in white letters. In fact, this post is a practice of marketing :) Attempting to interest the public, not actually interested in the product ...
Hello! =)

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/18392/


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