Blackbox Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to blackbox

awesome

223 6,129 7.2 Lua blackbox VS awesome

awesome window manager (by awesomeWM)
Hyprland

130 16,694 9.9 C++ blackbox VS Hyprland

Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
eww

115 8,472 8.4 Rust blackbox VS eww

ElKowars wacky widgets
river

82 2,942 9.4 Zig blackbox VS river

[mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (by riverwm)
lxqt

40 1,581 3.5 Shell blackbox VS lxqt

Checkout all LXQt components at once by using git submodule. Discussions, Wiki and general issues are here.
labwc

40 1,451 9.8 C blackbox VS labwc

A Wayland window-stacking compositor
herbstluftwm

32 1,075 4.0 C++ blackbox VS herbstluftwm

A manual tiling window manager for X11
SaaSHub

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SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
waymonad

21 828 0.0 Haskell blackbox VS waymonad

A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
awesome-wayland

18 1,144 7.7 blackbox VS awesome-wayland

Discontinued A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
wlstem

6 26 7.5 C blackbox VS wlstem
cagebreak

7 246 5.7 C blackbox VS cagebreak

Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison
vivarium

5 348 2.8 C blackbox VS vivarium

A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots

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With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
14 projects | /r/linux | 26 Aug 2022

I remember when Blackbox was the only *box.
xoblite x minimalism
1 project | /r/desktops | 21 Feb 2021

(2) The main menu is configured through the menu.rc configuration file located in the same folders as the .exe. The syntax should be fairly self-explanatory (if not, xoblite's syntax is similar to if not identical with the legacy bb4nix syntax). Once you save, the menu contents will update automatically the next time you open the menu by right clicking on the Desktop.