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MikeMcChillin
March 3rd, 2008, 12:15 AM
This is a little off topic, but these forums are so helpful, I figured I'd give this a try...

I want to know if there are any windowmanagers like Fluxbox, Openbox, or PekWM for Windows Vista. I'm not running Ubuntu, I'm running Vista. I'm not trying to make my desktop look like Vista, either, just to clear things up.

I just really love the ability to customize things so much in Ubuntu that I want it to transfer over to Vista when I have to use it (I dual boot).

P.S. I think XP users can use Fluxbox with CygWin (or w/e) but I didn't try because it didnt' say it was compatible with Vista.

Thanks in advance.

yabbadabbadont
March 3rd, 2008, 12:25 AM
I think that there is a BlackBox for windows out there. bbforwin or something like that.

MikeMcChillin
March 3rd, 2008, 12:42 AM
I think that there is a BlackBox for windows out there. bbforwin or something like that.

Thanks, I'm looking into that now.

yabbadabbadont
March 3rd, 2008, 01:09 AM
http://www.bb4win.org/news.php

MikeMcChillin
March 3rd, 2008, 02:00 AM
http://www.bb4win.org/news.php

Do you know if there's any way to customize Vista's windows using bb? (I mean like the top of firefox - to make it not look like the vista theme)

urukrama
March 3rd, 2008, 01:33 PM
BB4win or bblean are nice. You could also use Litestep (http://www.litestep.net/).

MikeMcChillin
March 3rd, 2008, 09:17 PM
BB4win or bblean are nice. You could also use Litestep (http://www.litestep.net/).

I've tried litestep but i've found that it's VERY buggy in Vista...
>.<

jviscosi
March 4th, 2008, 03:45 PM
I've tried litestep but i've found that it's VERY buggy in Vista...
>.<

For some strange reason, that doesn't surprise me at all ... ;-)