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View Poll Results: Window Manager of the Year
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Fluxbox
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130 |
16.48% |
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Window Maker
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18 |
2.28% |
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Enlightenment
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51 |
6.46% |
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KWin
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127 |
16.10% |
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Compiz
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249 |
31.56% |
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MetaCity
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42 |
5.32% |
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IceWM
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38 |
4.82% |
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Blackbox
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8 |
1.01% |
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OpenBox
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51 |
6.46% |
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xfwm4
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30 |
3.80% |
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Ratpoison
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7 |
0.89% |
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Ion
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3 |
0.38% |
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sawfish
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2 |
0.25% |
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FVWM
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10 |
1.27% |
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awesome
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23 |
2.92% |
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01-10-2009, 07:11 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Indiana, USA
Distribution: OpenBSD, Ubuntu
Posts: 892
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Well, now that it's votin' time... I use CWM on my OpenBSD machines and FVWM on my other machines. I don't like giving terse responses, so... CWM is a very lightweight window manager that started out as a port of EvilWM but ended up being entirely rewritten. There are no window decorations, and very nearly everything can be controlled by the keyboard. There are builtin functions for completing programs, "commands" (which are like program shortcuts you setup), and SSH host entries (gotten from your known_hosts file). You can put windows into "groups" and then show only a single group at a time, effectively creating virtual desktops. If a window is not in a group, it is always shown, like being "sticky" in virtual desktop parlance. However, unlike virtual desktops you can show multiple groups at the same time. Additionally, you can select windows by searching for their title, which is cool if you've got just a ton of windows all together in the same group. The code seems very stable to me personally at this point (I've never had a crash yet after a few months of using it). While it's developed in the OpenBSD project, the code can be slightly modified to run on Linux as well.
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01-10-2009, 07:36 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2008
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 1,041
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The ones i use in order of appearance. ratpoison,xmonad,dwm, and rarely pekwm. pekwm is the most decent non tiling wm there is today IMO.
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01-11-2009, 05:02 AM
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#18
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Guru
Registered: Nov 2006
Location: Belgium
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.04, Debian testing
Posts: 5,019
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Compiz, if used with moderation. No youtube fireworks for me.
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01-11-2009, 07:03 AM
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#19
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Melbourne
Distribution: Slackware-current
Posts: 2,753
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Window Maker is old, with little active development for some years, but those 64x64 pixel icons are just so damn easy to hit using the touchpad on my laptop when the train is rattling along!
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01-11-2009, 07:04 AM
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#20
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Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 167
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I voted for openbox because my only problem with it is that, now that I've found it, I'll no longer have the fun of looking for a window manager that suits me perfectly.
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01-11-2009, 03:16 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2006
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 507
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Fluxcapa... i mean fluxbox!
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01-11-2009, 11:09 PM
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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Third Stone from the Sun
Distribution: Sourcemage
Posts: 132
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Fluxbox...
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01-12-2009, 09:14 AM
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#23
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Member
Registered: May 2005
Location: Greece
Distribution: antiX using fluxbox, icewm, i3 and wmii
Posts: 275
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Fluxbox (and icewm on antiX!)
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01-12-2009, 03:35 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Colorado
Distribution: sabayon
Posts: 175
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Compiz
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01-12-2009, 07:38 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Devon - UK
Distribution: Suse - Desktop, Arch - Laptop, Centos - Server and whatever I fancy on the other machine ;)
Posts: 58
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Fluxbox 
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01-13-2009, 02:41 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2006
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 478
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TWM is the window manager I use most now. Fluxbox is ok, and what I use the second most, and I still think FVWM is the most powerful window manager available -- I just don't need that power right now so I'm not using it currently.
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01-13-2009, 02:50 PM
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#27
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2009
Posts: 1
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Compiz...
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01-15-2009, 02:22 AM
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#28
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: South Africa
Distribution: Debian; DSL; Ubuntu
Posts: 11
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voted compiz and it is default on my system. going to try some of the others.
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01-15-2009, 04:18 AM
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#29
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Member
Registered: Aug 2007
Location: Bogotá, Colombia. South America
Distribution: ArchLinux / Source Mage GNU Linux (test branch) / openSUSE
Posts: 130
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WTF??
Am I blind or there isn't XMonad? It just happens to be the finest WM I've seen so far. That is a real missing here.
However, now using ratpoison and gone for it!
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01-15-2009, 04:22 AM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: USA
Distribution: Mageia Cauldron & Salix 14
Posts: 939
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Why no LXDE? Maybe it will win WM - 2009...Fluxbox...I used to like Window Maker but I guess they stopped working on it. I wish somebody else would take it up.
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