I'd like to see the rest of the basic ones for Slackware, like Blackbox, FVWM2, but lately I feel like voting for the most basic one, anyway.

I like Fluxbox with antiX, and Openbox (minimalGUI) with Sparky.

Another 'cwm' user here, not on the list, but I think that makes three of us from the comments so far. ;)

It's ideal for keyboard jockeys like me.

cwm has been added.

--jeremy

Being rather old fashioned, I still boot up to the console and start Xwindow with the command 'startx'.

:) Voted.

... but I doubt us cwm users will be little more than a blip in the final counts.

I do the same thing - I like seeing the cli, plus I believe all display managers run as root, which could possibly be a security risk in some way.

Actually I just determined that my window manager is xfwm4, for xfce. Sorry if I mislead you. I simply modified the /etc file that selects the Xwindow manager so there is no auto start. Don't remember now which file that is. It's been a long time. I still work from a console sometimes.

so do i.
i don't consider it oldfashioned tbh. just less eyecandy, more K.I.S.S.

and what windowmanager do you use? Xorg does not include one.

Metacity, by the way, was Mutter's predecessor, so maybe next year...?

It actually does: The venerable twm. :)

I was looking for a very lightweight WM for a special use so I ran cwm on a different virtual console to give it a try.
Wow! Right now, I have to exert effort figuring out and remembering keystrokes, but it's clear that a regular user would zip around without even thinking how. I'm not ready to switch, but I'm going to keep it running for a while to play with it.

This guy has a nice .cwmrc, here. It's what I based mine on.