+1 fluxbox

Just found out recently that the original author of blackbox migrated the code to a GitHub repo as recently as 2015. Unfortunately, no commits since then.

There's a fork of the project being maintained at https://github.com/bbidulock/blackboxwm and the last commit was Oct of 2018.

Fluxbox, baby. I tried Hackedbox (hard to tell the difference from Fluxbox IMO), Windowlabs (clunky) and maybe a couple others in passing but have used Fluxbox exclusively for 10 years or more.

Initially because of the low-end laptop I had and needed to be resource conscious. It does everything I need it to and wouldn't use anything else now.

that is not the information i get from that repository.
to me it looks like:
- it has been on github for 17 (!) years
- the latest commit was 4 years ago

Looking at the commit log, I see the maintainer's username is not linked to his profile, except for the very last commit. I suspect the SF cvs repo was migrated to a git repo, thereby retaining dates of commits.

Also was basing my assumption on the comments and dates on this ticket.

Oh, and a link (that leads to the Git repo) near the top of the blackbox SF summary page, the text reads " As of 2015-06-19, this project can be found here."

i don't fully understand it, but upon closer inspection it seems you're right.

bspwm, which is not there. i3wm & Openbox are awesome too!

Added.

--jeremy

Openbox

Calm Window Manager (a.k.a. cwm)

i3 for me, as it is very Slackware friendly in my opinion (especially with plain text config and scripting friendly).

IceWM

I just want it to work and not fight me. IceWM has been my desktop of choice for years.

I'll second that - used it on FreeBSD for a long time, best minimal window manager I ever used. Used to be default on openBSD but now FVWM is, which I don't like at all.

Thanks Jeremy! Is there a way I can re-cast my vote?

Unfortunately votes cannot be changed once placed.

--jeremy