Window Manager of the Year
If you are looking for KDE, Gnome, etc they are in the Desktop Environment Award.
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XFce is actually a Desktop, not a Window Manager from my knowledge. Even their homepage states its a lightweight desktop. :)
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Thanks drew, I moved it.
--jeremy |
Mine unfortunately isn't on there. But I'll throw in a vote for ratpoison anyway. :)
edit: spelling error |
Have Enlightenment on my Debian box. I luv the virtual workspaces that it has.
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Fluxbox here :D
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You know I play with them all...but I always go back to Windowmaker. I have no idea why. Just love it.
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For me, I love using Fluxbox... it's so easy to use and ya don't have the taskbar and all the other pretty stuff get in the way :)
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Kinda like mydini, only fluxbox is my magnet. I tried dozens early on and found and stuck to blackbox. Until I found fluxbox and then, other than cycling through the wm's and desktops on Slack 9 for a few hours after I installed it and later trying dropline gnome for a few days, and just trying XFCE4 the past few days, it's all fluxbox. Got bored/annoyed with XFCE4 (which is quite nice, but not my thing) last night and I'm happy to be fluxing again. :)
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fluxbox is like a dream... cant wait for the stable 1.0 release :)
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where's openbox? :)
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Openbox has been added.
--jeremy |
fluxbox for me, it rocks, runs in 600k or RAM, has everything you actually need, and it's easy enough for my 11 year old brother to use, which is saying a lot.
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Sawfish rocks,
Sawfish rocks, Sawfish all the way! It's really small, and configurable, and really makes my day! (Sorry, I'm in a Christmas kind of mood... a bit early) |
Kahakai??? It's the fastest moving, most featured WM out there and really is a cut above the rest.
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Hey, where's amiwm? ^_^ Out of the ones listed, blackbox is the nicest; fluxbox would beat blackbox, but it still seems to have some issues.
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evilwm is the best (because invisible) window manager, why can't i choose it?
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icewm - just does what I want easy and fast.
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n00b question!!!
what is the difference between a window manager (enlightenment) and a desktop environment (kde). dont they both do the same thing? they both run after you startx and they both give you a desktop from wich to work. but i have heard of people running gnome on top of e. how does that work? |
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What about 'kahakai'?
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And, no, the fact that it's ahead of fluxbox at this point has *nothing* to do with it. ;) It's the principle of the thing. |
FVWM without doubt!!
Fvwm beats every WM hands down....it has been there since time immemorial too ;) alongwith fvwm-themes, theres virtually nothing that beats it :cool:
one vote for that...and could u please add that too |
Pekwm Is NICE
I used to love fluxbox and openbox...but when i try pek.....i just couldn't belive it, it was like someone read my mind and made a WM for me :D
I'd say... for me Pekwm is the best one |
well i just installed slackware 9.1 and i must say i really like it so far. it asked me what DE to use by default and i choose xfce, but that is a DE right? what WM am i using then?
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xfce is both - it's a wm transitioning to IDE, it seems. I think the window manager component is actually called xfwm4. Nice work for the most part but I just played with it a few days and went back to flux. :)
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Just like to add my voice to the "where's Kahakai?" crowd. It's fast, lightweight, infinitely configurable and really purty!!!
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Xfce
I personally vote for Xfce
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Metacity gets my vote. It goes well with GNOME.
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This was a hard one. For me, fluxbox, and thats the one I vote. This year I change a few times of window manager.
First Enlightment, its fast, nice, but hard to drive. That take me off from it. Then metacity with Gnome, don't make me a great desktop, also, the velocity decreases a lot. So switch to the firsts alphas of xfce 4. XFCE4: great, just what I was specting from a GTK2 WM. Great tools, nice manager, easy to configure an drive, but in a few months I get bored of it. Openbox: I allways like *box, back in the days of slackware 3, blackbox drive me crazy ;-). But this was no so good, maybe in a few years... Fluxbox: O_O, when I got it running (took me a time to get it as I like) is great, perfect I must say. First I toke a chance with the beta, but gkrellm was show on the taskbar so I say "let gets stable" :p, then 0.1.. Love it! Runs fine, managin it is fully aceptable, dockapping tools... got all, I don't know wath to say... try it! :p |
Alright, if we're not going to see Kahakai, I'll go openbox, my second choice. Version 3 is smooth, and fewer irrelevancies than flux imho.
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Many of the window managers out there perform very well, but Fluxbox gets my vote as I have been able to tweak it to my taste w/ the least effort plus it's just FAST!
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Ion!
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i may get a slap for this but i would like to see kde up there?
*slpas himself for everyone else who is intending to* |
slaps matthew slaps
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ohh shit,
*slaps himself so hard he falls on the floor* kde is a desktop, not a windows manager? is that right maybe thats why it isnt here, after kde winmaker and enlightenment are my next choices. But wait there desktops not windows managers, im confused :scratch: |
Fluxbox for me... I just love it, there's nothing except what really needs to be there, and super fast.
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Fluxbox -- Managing your windows without the BS.
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pekwm
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the new fluxbox is pretty lovely and fast as well
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OpenBox got my vote, though I would have voted for FVWM if it were on the list. I went through the various *box WMs but settled on FVWM because with a little patience you can configure most every aspect of how it works. O.K. make that a lot of patience.
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i agree
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agreed, fluxbox owns!
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Hm. I'd seen that around but never paid any attention to it beyond checking out the site, since it was a waimea fork. I can't remember why, but I didn't really like waimea. Of course, being a fork, it could be much improved/different. Maybe I'll give that a spin someday.
Y'know, thinking about forks and types, there's stuff like xwin.org or whatever, but does anyone know of a comprehensive 'family tree' of window managers, that maybe sorts them into tribes and families? I don't know if folks have seen the chart someone did of Unix history but something like that would be cool for window managers. |
I liked waimea, but then I like kahakai a lot more. It just seems the most accesible if you want to customise things a little bit, and you haven't found a WM that quite suits yet. Mind you, it's ages since I tried flux...
As for the family tree, something like that would definitely interest me, but i haven't heard of one. |
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