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View Poll Results: Window Manager of the Year
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awesome
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9 |
1.66% |
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Compiz
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72 |
13.28% |
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dwm
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8 |
1.48% |
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Enlightenment
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40 |
7.38% |
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Fluxbox
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61 |
11.25% |
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FVWM
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7 |
1.29% |
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i3
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22 |
4.06% |
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IceWM
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20 |
3.69% |
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JWM
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7 |
1.29% |
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KWin
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90 |
16.61% |
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Marco
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6 |
1.11% |
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MetaCity
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6 |
1.11% |
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Mutter
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13 |
2.40% |
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Openbox
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95 |
17.53% |
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Ratpoison
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5 |
0.92% |
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Sawfish
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3 |
0.55% |
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Window Maker
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12 |
2.21% |
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xfwm4
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46 |
8.49% |
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xmonad
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8 |
1.48% |
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spectrwm
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8 |
1.48% |
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wmii
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4 |
0.74% |
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12-17-2012, 06:40 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,514
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Window Manager of the Year
If you are looking for KDE, Gnome, etc they are in the Desktop Environment Award.
--jeremy
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12-18-2012, 03:15 AM
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#2
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 5,087
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As they say, i3... what else is there? LOL
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12-18-2012, 03:41 AM
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#3
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Member
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: London
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 112
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Actually, my choice is spectrwm, but icewm is my preference from the available list.
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12-18-2012, 04:09 AM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2009
Location: Perth, W.A.
Distribution: Slackware 14, Debian 6, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
Posts: 104
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I'm with acampbell, I use spectrwm. Light, small, easy config, restart in-place, tiling and floating windows. Spectrwm plus tmux satisfies all my needs, including the half-a-dozen remote sessions I have going at any one time.
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12-18-2012, 05:08 AM
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#5
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Registered: Sep 2009
Location: Geogia, USA
Distribution: Ubuntu, Debian, Live CDs
Posts: 213
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I voted for DWM, but I am starting to use spectrwm a lot more since volume keys on my laptop and three different keyboards now seem to work whenever they feel like it. All of the volume keys work with just about every other window manager I've tried, so DWM is most likely the cause of my problem. I just wish there was a patch for spectrwm to implement a system tray.
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12-18-2012, 05:21 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: On the Beaches of Super Sunny Southern San Clemente, California USA
Distribution: Slackware - duh!
Posts: 513
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Can we add Twin to the list?
Whether I'm running in a console, or in KDE or Xfce, I typically dedicate one desktop in my pager to Twin and have severa twterms running where I ssh into remote boxes where I have Tmux sessions running.
Twin plays nice whether it is running in your desktop manager or all by itself in the console. Think of it kinda like a hypervisor for Tmux or screen, if you will
It's da bomb!
To install and run, you simply do a:
<code>
# sbopkg -i twin
# ^d
$ twstart
</code>
And you're ready to roll!
Or read the detailed article HERE
Enjoy
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12-18-2012, 06:51 AM
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Member
Registered: May 2005
Location: Greece
Distribution: antiX using fluxbox, icewm, i3 and wmii
Posts: 275
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Where's wmii? I used to use fluxbox, but wmii has won me over.
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12-18-2012, 08:38 AM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2011
Location: Nepal
Distribution: RHEL, Ubuntu
Posts: 86
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Compiz
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12-18-2012, 08:39 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Waaaaay out West Texas
Distribution: AntiX 13 , Various Puppys (MacPup),VL 7 STD Gold,Semplice
Posts: 1,410
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Fluxbox.
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12-18-2012, 09:15 AM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 100
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I'm muttering with gnomepanel.
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12-18-2012, 09:28 AM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,514
Original Poster
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Quote:
Originally Posted by acampbell
Actually, my choice is spectrwm, but icewm is my preference from the available list.
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spectrwm has been added.
--jeremy
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12-18-2012, 11:12 AM
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#12
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Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: the internet
Distribution: trx, #!, slack, gentoo, arch, witch, etc
Posts: 139
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can i get clfswm added to vote for?
respect to i3 for it's elegance, ease, effectiveness, development speed and trajectory, and opening a whole new world of tiling window management to those who feared tiling, thinking it was all ratpoison.
and of course, much respect to xmonad, the king of window managers, imo. i've since gone back to it, and addapted it to make use of some of the features i found in clfswm and i3. it's that awesome.
... but still, i want to vote for clfswm, give it what little reccognition i can.
and i know a few people who will want to vote for herbsluftwm too. (yet to try it myself, but it's all the rage in some circles)

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12-19-2012, 08:27 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2004
Location: greece
Distribution: crunchbang
Posts: 4
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Openbox
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12-19-2012, 02:40 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 179
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IceWM is my personal favourite of all time, and it just keeps gradually improving, so I voted for it.
Honestly, e17 is probably going to end up being a better choice for WM of the year but I haven't tried it enough to have an opinion on it.
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12-20-2012, 05:24 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2006
Posts: 7
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No other crazy people using Blackbox here?
I admit that I should have migrated to flux some time ago, but it just seems not necessary...
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