Fluxbox is a fork of the original Blackbox 0.61.1 sourcecode with different goals. Read NEWS to see whats new in this release. For copyright information see COPYING For more information go to: http://fluxbox.org/ Compile and Install: $ ./configure $ make and then as root # make install Cross-Compile for Windows: You'll want mingw-cross-env installed, with libX11 and mingw-catgets built. A configure line that works is: $ ./configure \ --prefix=/ \ --host=i686-pc-mingw32 \ --disable-imlib2 \ --disable-xmb \ --disable-slit \ --disable-remember \ --disable-toolbar \ --disable-fribidi \ --disable-nls \ --disable-xft \ LIBS="-lxcb -lXdmcp -lXau -lpthread -lws2_32" Then, build and install with $ make install DESTDIR=$(pwd)/stage You can then copy the whole "stage" directory to a Windows machine and run it on your choice of X server. Thanks: Blackbox team People at #fluxbox on the irc.freenode.net irc-network. skypher of openprojects for bugtesting and providing fluxbox with themes: Clean CleanColor Makro, Carbondioxide and MerleyKay. And all the people who sent bugfixes/patches and helped us making Fluxbox a better application.