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Openbox VS bbLean

Compare Openbox VS bbLean and see what are their differences

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Openbox logo Openbox

Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

bbLean logo bbLean

Alternative Windows shell
  • Openbox Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-06
  • bbLean Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-03-31

Openbox videos

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Get Rid Of That Bloated Desktop Environment And Install Openbox

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  • Review - Manjaro Openbox: First Impressions and Review
  • Tutorial - Openbox V8S Review- How to get Free TV!!!

bbLean videos

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Blackbox for Windows | bbLean for Windows

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Openbox and bbLean)

Openbox

bbLean

Linux
100 100%
Linux
0% 0
OS & Utilities
0 0%
OS & Utilities
100% 100
Window Manager
100 100%
Window Manager
0% 0
Image Optimisation
0 0%
Image Optimisation
100% 100

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Reviews

These are some of the external sources and on-site user reviews we've used to compare Openbox and bbLean

Openbox Reviews

Top 10 Best Desktop Environments in 2020
People who’re deep into Linux, love Openbox’s simplicity. It’s extremely lightweight, and comes with only a text-based right-click menu that lists all your applications. The menu is customizable too, and you can add scripts or functions within the menu as a link.
Source: www.journaldev.com

bbLean Reviews

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, bbLean seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Openbox mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Openbox yet. Tracking of Openbox recommendations started around Mar 2021.

bbLean mentions (1)

  • A forgotten webpage: Stardock.com - This year in skinning (2002) - Windows XP skins
    I used to love this stuff, I had a sick bblean setup. Now I'm old and lazy and I leave everything default and make my desktop background a solid color. Source: almost 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Openbox and bbLean, you can also consider the following products

i3 - A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.

WindowBlinds - WindowBlinds is a computer program that allows users to skin the Windows graphical user interface.

dwm - dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

Cairo Shell - Cairo is a desktop environment for Windows.

awesome - A dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages.

Talisman Desktop - Talisman Desktop is a configurable Windows shell replacement introduced in 1997 by Lighttek...

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