Window Manager of the Year
 

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

--jeremy

Fluxbox

Hmm, i need to figure out what the difference between a "window manager" and a "desktop manager" is.

you mean desktop environment ? well a desktop environment includes additional programs, these would mostly include KDE, GNOME, XFCE. Fluxbox on the other hand does not come with additional programs such as a file manager, image viewer, document viewer, etc.

Another one for fluxbox

e17 & e17-svn

very nice

Since no dwm I selected openbox since I use it once in a while.

compiz and fluxbox, chose compiz.

There are a couple in the list I'm unfamiliar with, e.g. "Awesome", but otherwise OpenBox takes the cake, hands down.

IceWM even if its kinda buggy these days with themes. Second choice would be fluxbox a tried and true friend that spans the ages.

If any poll needed an "other" category this is surely it.

Compiz is finally working properly for me, so I'm going to go with it. Besides, it was the first wm that made my wife say "Oooo - I want that on my machine"
:)

fvwm gets my vote - I prefer to start with nothing (ie a black .fvwm2rc file!) and build up the wm exactly how I want it. As I go along I still add the odd tweak here and there as I think of them however my wm works great for me now and what is what matters! :) Whether anybody else would be able to use it as fluently doesn't matter to me - I am the only one using this pc! :)

I voted Compiz. Yes, I'm a sucker for visuals ;)

But in all seriousness, that's not the only reason I use it. I like compositing and H/W acceleration, too. :D No more blit smearing!

I thought compiz was a windows manager enhancer not a wm it self?

Compiz. Makes my desktop look like a freakin' Star Wars movie.

Compiz is a stand-alone WM. :cool:

I am using JWM. It is very good for me.

what, no xmonad?

Openbox gets my vote.

Compiz, although I've been considering switching back to Metacity w/compositing

I am not using any standalone WM, and I haven't really heard much on the WM front - except perhaps a bit more Awesome fans than usual. So I won't vote on this one.

Another year without polling Xmonad... F* off! I will go with ratpoison although awesome deserves some praise here.

Despite the attitude in your post, xmonad has been added.

--jeremy

I really appreciate that addition. Thanks Jeremy!

What, no TWM?

No one really uses TWM seriously...


No seriously guys whos crazy enough to use TWM :p

e17 or e17-svn for debian/ubuntu

fvwm-crystal is a very close 2nd:)

How about the "other" option for those of use who use really obscure WMs?

Fluxbox from me

We don't plan on adding an "Other" option to any of the polls, but feel free to post your Other suggestions as comments.

--jeremy

compiz

I voted for xmonad, as it's the closest thing there is to a comfortable, tiling window manager. :)
StumpWM comes close, but I just wish it didn't force the need for a prefix key-sequence - I personally wish it behaved a little more like xmonad.

As far as other WMs I use go, I am also quite partial to CWM (on OpenBSD).

Pekwm

I Vote fvwm

fluxbox gets the vote, but icewm is not far behind. (BTW icewm theme problems are now fixed)

I haven't invested much time in finding the differences between any of these and so I stick with the default for ubuntu. Which I'm pretty sure is metacity. And I enable the effects which makes it fun :) If I'm wrong, oh well -- metacity gets an uninformed vote.

icewm
I like is simple configuration and i use it on Linux and Bsd system, in the future i hope to use it even on OpenSolaris.

I'm pretty sure if you've enabled Desktop Effects you're no longer using Metacity; it switches to Compiz. It's okay, though, Compiz is cool ;)

I've been running Fvwm on Slackware for some time now, and just started playing around with Awesome on OpenBSD. So I voted Fvwm.

Thanks for the info. But it seems that my vote went to the wrong place =)

I cast another vote for the elegance of simplicity

Openbox was my selection; implementated is fantastic in #!CrunchBang.

Ahh I do see that they have some changes this year I will have to download it and compile it promptly. I really do hope the themes have been fixed I will have to test it and see if its working. I am actually surprised to see this out since there was no activity on the mailing list( I am currently subscribed). I know that I mentioned it so maybe someone saw that and did some work :)

Fluxbox & Metacity are ok. Compiz is pretty cool. But my vote goes to Enlightenment. By far, the most elegant & pretty window manager I've ever seen! The only downside is that it's a bit of a resource-hog which makes sense considering all it's doing & I can live with that. ;)

Fluxbox. This year. Last year. Next year. Fluxbox. Fluxbox. Fluxbox.

I use Blackbox in Windows, but it's so much better than the *NIX original that I can prefer Fluxbox under Linux.

XFWM
 

I use XFWM. I just went to using XFCE as my go to desktop environment this year after KDE3 was starting to not be provided as an option in so many distros. I discovered a lot of themes at xfce-look.org, and even found it pretty easy to create my own XFWM theme. Check it out: Pewterburg-Gold.
As I discovered more about the window manager, I found out that only recently it has the capabilities of prelight effects for the buttons, but I really like it's versatility.

XFWM bumped since KDE4 ditched konqueror, so they get my vote this year
:)
XFCE team! stay cool :)

Since I note from elsewhere that you're a fan of "rolling your own" you may want to check out OpenBOX, wh/is an awesome fast and lightweight window manager if you're willing to spend the time tweaking it to your personal tastes. I'm lazy in my old age and just go with the convenience of default Gnome these days, but back in the day when I was more into such things my OpenBOX set up was my fave ever. That was just one lean, mean, and clean desktop that did everything just the way I wanted it to w/o getting in the way. Oh, and just for reference, it replaced Fluxbox, wh/in had in turn replaced Blackbox.... Which probably goes some ways towards explaining why I am so opinionated about the idiocy that some of the HIG fascists have enforced upon us....