These are themes for the Blackbox window manager. Assuming you have Blackbox installed, all you have to do to install these is move the .tar.gz file to ~/.blackbox and uncompress them. If you don’t already, you should have the following directories under your home directory:
~/.blackbox
~/.blackbox/styles/
~/.blackbox/Backgrounds/
While you’re at it, go ahead and create a symbolic link from ~/.blackbox/Backgrounds/ to ~/.blackbox/backgrounds. You can do this by typing “ln -sf Backgrounds backgrounds” in the .blackbox directory.
Though the background files are supposed to live in ~/.blackbox/Backgrounds, many theme authors use the lowercase version when writing their themes. Setting up a link is the easiest way to adjust for this. (Thanks to James Bussard for pointing out a blatant typo in these instructions, which, if followed, would have rendered all these things unusable.)
I have found bbconf to be a great tool for blackbox configuration. Like wmakerconf, it also functions as a theme configurator and has a snertly GUI.
Themes contributed by Marek Fetlinski
Original themes and ports for Blackbox
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Running Chromium browser Version 76.0.3809.132 (Official Build) (64-bit) on FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p10.
Love WindowMaker – been running it on and off for years. Always come here for themes. I know this site is pretty static but the content is still relevant.
Listing EVERYTHING that should be typed in the terminal would be helpful.
Blackbox hasn’t been updated since 2014 or so, but everything worked fine back then. What issues are you having?