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View Poll Results: Window Manager of the Year
awesome 5 2.81%
cwm 0 0%
dwm 9 5.06%
Fluxbox 33 18.54%
FVWM 11 6.18%
herbstluftwm 0 0%
i3 22 12.36%
IceWM 20 11.24%
JWM 8 4.49%
MetaCity 3 1.69%
Openbox 41 23.03%
Ratpoison 1 0.56%
spectrwm 3 1.69%
twm 8 4.49%
Window Maker 10 5.62%
xmonad 4 2.25%
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Old 12-23-2020, 10:23 AM   #1
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Window Manager of the Year

If you are looking for KDE, Gnome, MATE, Unity, etc they are in the Desktop Environment Award.

NOTE: Window Managers that are rarely used outside of their Desktop Environment counterparts are no longer included in this category, based on feedback. This includes: Compiz, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and xfwm4.

--jeremy
 
Old 12-24-2020, 12:55 PM   #2
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I use herbstluftwm, but I voted for IceWM since the devs have been working really hard lately.
 
Old 12-24-2020, 04:09 PM   #3
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I use herbstluftwm
Oh! That's... rare.
I tried it once. Liked the aesthetics of it, but had no use for its functionality.
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I voted for IceWM since the devs have been working really hard lately.
Interesting to hear.
Unfortunately IceWM has always been lacking that bit of configurability I desire, mostly around manual & keyboard-driven tiling, like openbox has.
 
Old 12-25-2020, 11:10 AM   #4
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I still enjoy the look and feel of Window Maker.
 
Old 12-26-2020, 12:16 PM   #5
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I voted for twm since I use vtwm, and sometimes ctwm. With ctwm having some nice changes and becoming the default for NetBSD, I would have went with ctwm this year.

I wonder in future polls if the "twm" option can be changed to "twm/ctwm/vtwm" ?

These three are all quite close to each other except on if/how Virtual Screens are handled.
 
Old 12-27-2020, 10:09 AM   #6
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Another year running fluxbox!
 
Old 12-27-2020, 07:41 PM   #7
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I always seem to come back to Fluxbox, primarily because of the convenience of the right-click menu and the ability to have tabbed application windows.
 
Old 12-29-2020, 04:30 PM   #8
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I3-wm in i3-gaps flavor. No doubt. I think I will change only when I will switch to wayland... for sway !
 
Old 01-05-2021, 04:44 PM   #9
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xfwm
 
Old 01-05-2021, 06:53 PM   #10
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Another year running fluxbox!
Another year here as well, it is really hard to beat, IMO!
 
Old 01-06-2021, 05:26 AM   #11
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sway
 
Old 01-16-2021, 04:32 AM   #12
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I like JWM though, it is lightweight as well as highly configurable. Apart from Openbox, JWM v2.4.0 is the only window manager to support pango. It also has a very good documentation.
 
Old 01-18-2021, 04:25 PM   #13
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mwm is missing. I voted twm, because I use it on a regular basis. cwm is also cool.
 
Old 01-19-2021, 04:46 AM   #14
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I3-wm in i3-gaps flavor. No doubt. I think I will change only when I will switch to wayland... for sway !
Tried and liked the tiling approach of it a lot. But when a friend of mine introduced me to awesome I decided to learn lua language and since then I'm more than happy with the result. A lot of things have still to be polished (in my setup) but I do not think I'll change to something else.

I have much better the keyboard than the mouse. This may explain that...
 
Old 01-19-2021, 10:53 AM   #15
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I forgot about awesome. I am glad you are learning Lua! It is by far my favorite scripting language!
 
  


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