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

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

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

KWin

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...

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

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.

Xmonad :)

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

--jeremy

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

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.

I love configurability as a coder. Fluxbox.

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 =(

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...:rolleyes:

Compiz is nice one.