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So someone faved one of my artworks on DeviantArt. And naturally I had
a look through their faves, to see what else I might find interesting.
And eventually I worked my way to this <https://www.deviantart.com/pitkon/art/Blackbox-309930439>, which is a
theme for the Blackbox window manager.

But more than that, for a while there was a project to run Blackbox on
Windows. The links in the blurb for that artwork point to a screenshot repository, last updated over a decade ago, and to a project home site
and forum site, both now gone.

Trying to install alternative GUIs on Windows was never going to be an
easy task ...

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On 2025-06-24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

So someone faved one of my artworks on DeviantArt. And naturally I had
a look through their faves, to see what else I might find interesting.
And eventually I worked my way to this
<https://www.deviantart.com/pitkon/art/Blackbox-309930439>, which is a
theme for the Blackbox window manager.

But more than that, for a while there was a project to run Blackbox on Windows. The links in the blurb for that artwork point to a screenshot repository, last updated over a decade ago, and to a project home site
and forum site, both now gone.

Trying to install alternative GUIs on Windows was never going to be an
easy task ...

Was that project LiteStep? I did see it in action once, and found it a
little impressive, mainly because it was something different for
Windows. That was years ago though.

http://litestep.net/

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