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View Poll Results: Window Manager of the Year
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Window Maker
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86 |
11.42% |
Enlightenment
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62 |
8.23% |
KWin
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123 |
16.33% |
Blackbox
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42 |
5.58% |
Fluxbox
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214 |
28.42% |
IceWM
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84 |
11.16% |
sawfish
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25 |
3.32% |
AfterStep
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4 |
0.53% |
MetaCity
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93 |
12.35% |
Openbox
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20 |
2.66% |
11-17-2003, 11:41 PM
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#31
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: Gentoo for me, Slackware for servers
Posts: 27
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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"  , 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! 
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11-18-2003, 05:54 AM
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#32
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Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Warwick (.ac.uk)
Distribution: Arch, Slackware 9.0, (knoppix standing by)
Posts: 256
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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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11-18-2003, 04:13 PM
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#33
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Member
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 381
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Quote:
Originally posted by cuerty
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.
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XFCE is not a WM...
It's a DE.
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11-18-2003, 04:20 PM
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#34
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Member
Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: Slackware / CentOS / Mint / Ubuntu
Posts: 42
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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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11-19-2003, 01:25 AM
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#35
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Latvia
Distribution: Mandrake
Posts: 6
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Ion!
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11-19-2003, 06:43 AM
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#36
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: CA
Posts: 165
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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*
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11-19-2003, 06:44 AM
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#37
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: CA
Posts: 165
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slaps matthew slaps
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11-19-2003, 06:47 AM
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#38
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: CA
Posts: 165
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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 
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11-19-2003, 10:46 PM
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#39
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE
Posts: 607
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Fluxbox for me... I just love it, there's nothing except what really needs to be there, and super fast.
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11-19-2003, 11:48 PM
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#40
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: Slackware64 13.1 x86_64, Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64
Posts: 121
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Fluxbox -- Managing your windows without the BS.
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11-20-2003, 10:34 AM
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#41
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Member
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Netherlands
Distribution: debian (sid)
Posts: 693
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pekwm
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11-23-2003, 06:23 AM
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#42
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: right behind the moon
Distribution: gentoo
Posts: 466
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the new fluxbox is pretty lovely and fast as well
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11-23-2003, 08:20 AM
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#43
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Member
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Washington D.C, USA
Distribution: Slack 12, Etch, Gutsy
Posts: 453
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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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11-24-2003, 04:04 AM
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#44
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Cornwall, UK
Distribution: Fedora Core 4
Posts: 268
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i agree
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11-28-2003, 10:23 AM
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#45
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2001
Posts: 24,149
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Quote:
Originally posted by matthewallen
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
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Window Maker and Enlightenment are Window Managers, not desktops to clarify this for you.
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