Window Manager of the Year
 

If you are looking for KDE, Gnome, etc they are in the Desktop Environment Award.

--jeremy

always fluxbox

What exactly is the difference between the two groups?

where's pekwm????, that little window manager come through great in 2005

Typically, it's a matter of scale. But there are also things which a DE does that a window manager will not do. Icons, file associations, etc... these are things that a DE usually does that a window manager would not do.

The task of a window manager is to manage the windows. Move, resize, minimize/hide (optional), close, open, placement... etc. Everything else is not part of the job (although most include menu functionality for people who don't run them in a DE). For example, if you click on a text document and an editor opens with the file in it, you are using functionality that is the realm of the DE.

For many people, a window manager provides all the functionality they need. Other people need the more complete and integrated environment that KDE or Gnome provides. The extra functionality comes at the cost of increased size and resource needs.

Fluxbox =)

Metacity or enlightenment.

Have to go with Enlightenment :D

Definitely Fluxbox

Fluxbox here

Thanks! Great explanation.

Fluxbox definitely.

Another fluxbox user here.

Fluxbox yet again

IceWM is my favorite!

Flux flux, baby :)

It is always Fluxbox. Keyboard shortcuts, menu editing - it is fast, stable and easy to use and set up.

has somebody mentioned Fluxbox already?

IceWM ... know your roots

/me

Where is wmii? I discovered this windowmanager less than a year ago and it immediately became my default. And it has made enormous progress in 2005.
I know it's not a mainstream wm, but it's worth a look...

I use also wmii and find it really cool. Lightweight, very good keyboard control, and these amazing layouts - the wm manages the windows for you.

http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/...topia_Wmii.pdf

Fvwm2 all the way, baby! :cool:

I voted Kwin.

There is no other window manager. ;)

Enlightenment E17.

Isn't KWin a KDE window manager?

My vote is for WMII. I usually use Gnome though.

My vote went for Icewm. Because it has good keyboard shortcuts, fullscreen option, ctrl+alt+space command line, good looking and familiar interface, it's very fast, has a nice cpu, mem monitor , etc

I used fluxbox, wmii, ion3, windowmaker, ratpoison, openbox all for quite a long time.

Fluxbox for sure

Blackbox!
It is small, fast & highly configurable..

Enlightenment all the way!
 

I've just become addicted to Enlightenment lately. It works great on its own, and it's really nice if you combine it with KDE. :)

Fluxbox for sure, however i think E17 is going to be HOT! In a way E17 provides the features of Fluxbox but with the extra eyecandy (and more cumbersome configuration as of now). I look forward to a more mature stable E17.

I've been fascinated with AfterStep ever since I found it in Mdk 6.0. I felt slighted when they decided not to include it anymore. That being said, I use KDE almost exclusively although I also like Enlightenment and am especially fond of the rendition of Fluxbox in Feather Linux. All these WM's give us a chance to think about how things might be done and I think any OS is dead without this kind of choice.

Gnome is a horrible monster

Then it lives up to its namesake! :D

I gave gnome another chance the other day - I just could not get past the Windows-like operation, especially Nautilus. The limitations I run into with Nautilus just drive me nuts. It feels almost exactly like Windows Explorer. :(

ho ho ho ... as a lite linux users
blackbox is number uno, and KDE in the
last finger i have (sorry for KDE users)

bwa ha ha ha

fluxbox is my WM guru :)

Sad, how everybody's got it wrong (Other than Ozar) - FVWM2 is by far the best ;)

I use KDE, so -> kwin

OpenBox. It never sacrafices good looks for performance and yet remains the fastest replacement for MetaCity that I can find.

I ran OpenBox once and got immediately addicted, it's super fast. With Xorg 7 + xcompmgr (finally got DRI on my stupid laptop ATI card), rox pinboard, fbpanel, it's seriously beautiful and amazingly fast. Configurable too.

I dunno why everyone's so crazy about fluxbox. I don't know if I just need to configure it a lot but every time I've tried it out it just sort of turns me off. Same with e16 and blackbox, I mean admittedly I haven't tried configuring them beyond the basics, but they're never really what I want. I'm always slightly bothered by what I'm missing, and I'm never sure if they really just aren't for me, or if I'm somehow doing something wrong. Can anyone who has experience with OpenBox point out why they choose Flux, Blackbox, or e16 over it?

The only other two I have even mildly been able to stand are waimea and e17. E17 is cool looking and fun to use, but I couldn't configure it for the life of me though.

I can't remember if I tried fvwm2 or not, and definitely not wmii or whatever.

flux for my slack box :D

After numerous attempts to try and get the *ugh!* windowlist button and shortcut out of the way without also losing the multiple desktops and several other configurations I had, I left IceWM and started using fluxbox. I see now that I'm so original in that.. I need something new [=-)

No kidding, fluxbox here, if I'm not trying to do impossible things to DEs :)

Openbox and Fluxbox as my second. Light and highly configurable :)

KDE. I even use it on my NetBSD box, although I prefer Fluxbox as my true desktop.

Exactly why I voted for it - it's the best of both worlds.

My 2 cents.

I prefure Fluxbox. I have Flux and FreeBSD doing duty on a PII 350. It will even play streaming video with Mplayer and RealPlay over the net. Also have it on PIII's and P4's.

KDE is nice but a little heavy for me.

IceWM is ok.

FVWM is ok.

I used openbox for about a month or more. But I dropped it because it's too slow. (I started using ion3, then ratpoison and now icewm instead)

Otherwhise I think it's greater looking... and much cleaner then fluxbox.

On the other side... it's quite a hack to get obpager to start on startup.

Definitely Xfce's xfwm4

hey hey hey! you guys forgot the best wm out there! TWM!!!!! i mean come on!!! its just sexy!....guess i'll have to go with blackbox, isn't anyone else here minimalist?

Ion2 is the best I've tried.