icewm
IceWM releases only, see Wiki (by ice-wm)
blackboxwm
A window manager for X11 (by bbidulock)
icewm | blackboxwm | |
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4 | 3 | |
261 | 155 | |
3.4% | - | |
8.8 | 3.2 | |
2 days ago | 2 months ago | |
C++ | C++ | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
icewm
Posts with mentions or reviews of icewm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-27.
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If you had a laptop with intel core duo and 3 gigs of ram, what Linux distro should you install on it?
The latest released version is 3.3.1 (2023-01-23).
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no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
$ wget https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/releases/download/3.3.0/icewm-3.3.0.tar.lz $ tar -x --lzip -vpf icewm-3.3.0.tar.lz $ cd icewm-3.3.0 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr $ make $ sudo make install
- using acpi with fahrenheit printout
- IceWM 3.0.0 Release
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing icewm and blackboxwm you can also consider the following projects:
icewm - A window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency
tinyformat - Minimal, type safe printf replacement library for C++
taffybar - A gtk based status bar for tiling window managers such as XMonad
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar [Moved to: https://github.com/polybar/polybar]
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
libcfg-cpp - A minimalistic configuration manager for C++ projects.
dotfiles - my dotfiles for my dev setup
awesomewm-config - RAVEN2CZ: AwesomeWM Configuration, Libraries and Themes.
ly - display manager with console UI
endeavouros-i3wm-setup - The beloved EndeavourOS default i3 (has gaps) theme and setup dotfile repo