I've been playing with odd combos of window managers and DEs lately, it's fun and interesting. Just wondering what combos work for you guys, and which ones are a waste of time. I tried Xfce4+E17 once, it looked cool, and flew, but what a mess. If I had the time to edit menus and such it could work. E16 and Xfce works great by the way. I also tried LXDE and Matchbox-WM, now this one is interesting, and very useful if you put the time into it and it actually works. Compiz rocks by itself too. As does KWIN. WMs are fun (until you open an application that mysteriously doesn't have a window bar.)

And yes, I am perfectly aware that I sound like a giddy 12 year old. My wife tells me the same thing, and I might add, while asking me to shut-up and let her do her OWN Gentoo install. It's like watching a child play with matches, that is, until hers works and mine doesn't because she used a MAKE MRPROPER command, and I, well, lets just say I'm having kernel issues at boot time (it just sounds better than EPIC-FAIL!)
But having fun is what linux is about right? Its like having a kind of software box of Legos, they all snap together regardless, and you can even put pirate heads on women's bodies (oh wait, I forgot, they make women pirate Lego people now.)

With that being said, has anyone found particularly wild or interesting combos of DEs/WMs? Or particularly disastrous ones!

I used for some time XFCE4 together with Xmonad. Worked well. Now using pure wmii, works better for me.

Xmonad is one of the coolest WMs around, RatPoison is cool too. Tiling, keyboard bases WMs are so much easier and faster to use. But I really can't picture Xfce with Xmonad. Ill have to try that one.

Hi, i used to use xfce with gnome panel at the top plus kwin.
I am currently and likely for a long time; using gnome2 with one panel (top); no nautilus (gees that was a bitch to get rid of) xfdesktop managing the desktop, xfce4 panel at the bottem, and compiz as the wm.

ZevenOS uses Xfce and Sawfish. It works, but the keyboard shortcuts are non-standard, and the only Sawfish information I could find was in ancient posts from when it was used in Gnome.