what's the diff?

[jedthehumanoid]

so i've tinkered with fluxbox, blackbox, openbox and waimea now. i don't get it. they all seem sthe same. can someone explain to me what the major differences are because they don't seem to be on the surface.

[z0mbix]

Originally posted by jedthehumanoid
so i've tinkered with fluxbox, blackbox, openbox and waimea now. i don't get it. they all seem sthe same. can someone explain to me what the major differences are because they don't seem to be on the surface.

Blackbox - The original, minimal wm

Fluxbox - Took off after bb development came to a halt and they added many new things to it to make bb more useable like window tabs, a taskbar and integrated keybindings.

Openbox - Like fb, took off when bb dev stopped. Has anti-aliased fonts and a `NetWM' compilant key handler called epistrophy

Waimea - has transparancy, different themes to the above. It also has no taskbar.

All the above can be found on each of the wm's websites :)