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XFCE and the wm that comes with it - Xfwm .


--Thomas

i3wm

I'm using wmii since 2010. I like its key bindings among other things.

chrissacchi wrote:What is your favorite Window Manager for GNU/Linux?

Openbox (easy configuration, lightweight).

I like Xfwm since it's the most customisable and the easiest to make new themes for. It's also very lightweight and slots in neatly alongside other desktop-environment software.

Although don't particularly like its very business-like and old-school feel, vtwm does offer a few interesting ideas, particularly in its twist on the "virtual desktops" concept common amongst Linux desktop environments.

madanra wrote:KDE. I switched from Windows 7 to Kubuntu a few months ago, and I chose KDE as it had most of the things I love about the Windows 7 desktop environment. Hopefully sometime I'll get round to compiling KDE myself, and I'll try and make it even better (for my purposes) than Win7

Yes, I have always thought KDE is the "good-looker" for people switching from Windows 7 and who like all the fancy eye-candy (Compiz is also good for us non-Kubuntu users).

Unity.

please don't shoot me

I don't need fancy features, so every decent window manager works fine for me. In fact, the thing I care most about is the visual appeal of the desktop and the windows. Here's my ranking:

1st choice: Unity (I don't know why people don't like it too much), as its design is awesome
2nd choice: XFCE, ugly out-of-the-box but configurable
3rd choice: GNOME, a pretty desktop environment
4th choice: all the others except for KDE
5th choice: KDE, looks ugly (in my opinion), but if you like it it's the same as any of the others listed above, but it seems to be configurable.