Window Manager of the Year

almatic · 01-16-2011, 03:58 AM

I vote for compiz. It has achieved so much in terms of promoting linux !
And it has become really amazingly stable.

anticapitalista · 01-16-2011, 04:43 AM

fluxbox though I also use icewm and wmii (used to use awesome, but didn't find it to be that awesome)

PetrusValidus · 01-16-2011, 09:07 PM

Openbox. The minimalist environment is great. I use it with GNOME and it runs beautifully.

afreitascs · 01-16-2011, 09:19 PM

rikijpn · 01-17-2011, 01:02 AM

Would it be possible to add "sawfish"? I'm rather surprised it's not already there, I thought it was a fairly popular window manager...

sunnydrake · 01-17-2011, 05:48 AM

metasity is fast and almost rock solid .. .but with lack of major innovations imho...

chal · 01-17-2011, 07:08 AM

I voted for metacity. I like plain vanilla metacity, without gnome. I also like nautilus as a file manager only (nautilus --no-desktop). Desktop Environments are unnecessary resource hogs IMO, unless you consider 3d and animated effects, or multiple and redundant means to access files necessary.

decodedthought · 01-17-2011, 07:32 AM

Xmonad

jeremy · 01-17-2011, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rikijpn

Would it be possible to add "sawfish"? I'm rather surprised it's not already there, I thought it was a fairly popular window manager...

sawfish received only a single vote last year, so has been removed.

--jeremy

danos_p · 01-18-2011, 01:49 AM

FVWM was my first. Although I use different managers now, FVWM still has the most Linux look&feel for mee.

wafflesausage · 01-18-2011, 03:36 PM

Openbox. It does what any good window manager should do, and not much more. Low resource usage, reliable, easy to use, and easily configurable via it's straightforward and flexible xml configuration files. I can't imagine using any other box, except for maybe some tiling wm's which have some features that Openbox obviously lacks, however their interfaces are typically a little GNU screen-like and masochistic, unfortunately.

agreimann · 01-18-2011, 04:02 PM

I love configurability as a coder. Fluxbox.

MorderVomUbel · 01-20-2011, 01:46 AM

Awesome WM here =). I even use it on my high-powered gaming desktop machine, just because I can't seem to be content without a tiling wm. Was using KDE for a while...

Awesome is just plain awesome on my laptop, though. No need to use the mouse =)

I honestly haven't tried any tiling WM besides awesome, though... Downside to awesome is how the config file format keeps changing and causing awesome to totally fart... then I need to vimdiff the rc.lua before I can get my gui open =(

aterm · 01-20-2011, 05:19 AM

AwesomeWM for me. I use fluxbox when I first install a system, but always end up installing awesome; I can't keep myself away from a tiling WM for some reason...

divyashree · 01-20-2011, 05:57 AM

Compiz is nice one.