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Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,602
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Window Manager of the Year
If you are looking for KDE, Gnome, MATE, Unity, etc they are in the Desktop Environment Award.
NOTE: Window Managers that are rarely used outside of their Desktop Environment counterparts have been removed this year, based on feedback. This includes: Compiz, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and xfwm4.
NOTE: Enlightenment was moved to the Desktop Environment category this year.
Distribution: antiX using herbstluftwm, fluxbox, IceWM and jwm.
Posts: 631
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Originally Posted by jeremy
If you are looking for KDE, Gnome, MATE, Unity, etc they are in the Desktop Environment Award.
NOTE: Window Managers that are rarely used outside of their Desktop Environment counterparts have been removed this year, based on feedback. This includes: Compiz, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and xfwm4.
NOTE: Enlightenment was moved to the Desktop Environment category this year.
--jeremy
Excellent decision!
Now we will be able to see which window managers are used as stand alone rather than what came with the desktop environment.
I use herbstluftwm. The reason being I prefer a tiler set up with my work flow nowadays.
I used fluxbox for many years and I also have a soft spot for icewm and jwm.
Distribution: antiX using herbstluftwm, fluxbox, IceWM and jwm.
Posts: 631
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Originally Posted by tomreyn
XFWM seems to be missing, could you add it?
Did you read the first post?
NOTE: Window Managers that are rarely used outside of their Desktop Environment counterparts have been removed this year, based on feedback. This includes: Compiz, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and xfwm4.
NOTE: Enlightenment was moved to the Desktop Environment category this year.
Still OpenBox for me. I've used it since it was first forked from BlackBox. And although I've tried many other WMs and DEs (this year I tried Awesome, KDE5 and LxQt), I consider OpenBox to have the best combination of good defaults, customizability and performance.
I played with Blackbox in my early GNU/Linux use, but became a KDE user - until KDE 4. I switched my supported distro at that time and evaluated my WM/DE again. Looking for Blackbox I found Fluxbox and it won the contest. Have been using it continuously since with no good reason to look further. Light weight, does what I want and I never have to stumble over it.
The most flexible and lightweight WM I have ever used was FVWM. I had a very beautiful and clean setup that would make my Debian use around 42MB of RAM after boot (yes, 42MB for the whole system). You can make it to be the most minimalist or maximalist you want, there are many modules available. I didn't really like the way it arranged windows by default, though. Also, your "ultimate setup" may take years away of your life, that is why I settled with Xfce.
Last edited by teresaejunior; 01-06-2016 at 12:29 AM.
I voted Openbox, because it's very flexible and functional, yet lightweight. However, since I use Xfce and xfwm4 works well for me, therefore I use xfwm4.
After spending uncounted hours tweeking fluxbox into a state of near perfection, I am past the point of being able to make a rational, unbiased judgement on the question.
Last edited by dijetlo; 01-13-2016 at 01:25 PM.
Reason: Anyone who can't think of three ways to spell a word lacks imagination
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