Window Manager of the Year

teckk · 02-05-2006, 11:17 AM

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.

gunnix · 02-05-2006, 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lydgate

Can anyone who has experience with OpenBox point out why they choose Flux, Blackbox, or e16 over it?

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.

landroni · 02-06-2006, 11:42 AM

Definitely Xfce's xfwm4

somnambulist · 02-09-2006, 07:12 PM

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?

jbdraper · 02-13-2006, 01:30 PM

Ion2 is the best I've tried.

humbletech99 · 02-15-2006, 07:59 AM

fluxbox rules supreme.

F-L-U-X-B-O-X

tuxdev · 02-15-2006, 11:57 AM

IceWM! Fluxbox gave me problems the task bar always cutting off the names of my programs.

alaskazimm · 02-15-2006, 05:25 PM

Tried others but I always come back to fluxbox.

Hungry ghost · 02-15-2006, 07:53 PM

I like both: fluxbox and enlightenment, but if I had to make a choice, then I'd choose enlightenment.

danex50 · 02-16-2006, 01:44 AM

MetaCity. It does a great job on my SUSE.

d0g · 02-16-2006, 05:04 AM

Openbox + Cygwin/X: my saviour when I'm at work where I have to use windoze.
Metacity: one of the best window managers ever. It does it's job, nothing less and nothing more.
Enlightenment: it's cool.

This year my vote goes to Openbox

joe f. · 02-16-2006, 11:25 AM

I voted Fluxbox and spend the most time there, but E17 is impressive. I'm going to build a more powerful machine soon, and if E17 keeps going the way it is I could be Enlightened in 2006.

cincindie · 02-16-2006, 02:58 PM

Wow! There seems to be a few WMs I didn't even know they existed. Have to try out a few in the next few months.

Worksman · 02-16-2006, 05:04 PM

I've used KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, FVWM, E17 and OpenBox3. I got the tip on OB3 from people on #gentoo, thought I should give it a try and realised people were not lieing! I don't know why some say OpenBox is slower than Fluxbox?! Is that OB2? OB3 is faster for me.
KDE seemed to bloated! Bad antialiasing! Bad fonts! Heavy on the resources! Not so smart WM! Gnome seemed OK... still a bit heavy. Fluxbox is nothing but a great WM! FVWM I don't know what to say about!

E17 is ... unusual? OpenBox is ... "standards compliant"

Anyway my prefered window manager is OpenBox3 now and forever I hope!

idealbsd · 02-17-2006, 09:19 AM

fluxbox !!!