blackboxwm
A window manager for X11 (by bbidulock)
polybar
A fast and easy-to-use status bar [Moved to: https://github.com/polybar/polybar] (by jaagr)
| blackboxwm | polybar | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | |
| 153 | 8,469 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.2 | 8.9 | |
| 2 months ago | about 3 years ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
blackboxwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of blackboxwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-24.
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Window manager suggestion for arch newbie
I loved Blackbox's configuration, however it's been deprecated in favor of Openbox, which is WAY less friendly. BB has a modern fork which works for the most part, but expect corner-cases.
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Paradox of ligher Desktop Managers
Your link does look like the one from Wikipedia: https://github.com/bbidulock/blackboxwm
polybar
Posts with mentions or reviews of polybar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-08.
- [I3Wm] Comment utiliser le polybar?
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Can I get a taskbar with BPSWM or i3?
It's optional though and you can easily replace it with something else. A lot of i3/bspwm users use something like polybar, lemonbar or yabar instead. When I was on bspwm I used tint2. These are all highly customizable, and tiling wm users tend to be the sort who want to customize them, which can be time consuming. But you can use almost anything, even something like the xfce4 panel if you want.
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Is there a way to install Polybar on KDE Neon?
git clone https://github.com/jaagr/polybar.git
What are some alternatives?
When comparing blackboxwm and polybar you can also consider the following projects:
tinyformat - Minimal, type safe printf replacement library for C++
polydock - ✨ A shiny and hackable application dock
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
archcraft - // Source : ISO
libcfg-cpp - A minimalistic configuration manager for C++ projects.
yabar - A modern and lightweight status bar for X window managers.
dotfiles - my dotfiles for my dev setup
win3wm - A Tiling Window Manager for windows 10, Inspired by i3wm
icewm - A window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency