Comments on: What Is Your Preferred Minimal Window Manager?

By: Mexican Vato Loco

Mexican Vato Loco — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:37:30 +0000

EvilWM is perfect, either the oficial version, or if you enhance it (one time i enhanced it to have a toolbar like a pannel… and a fixed position clock)

Was pretty cool… i think, evilwm is the best coding mod experience, the dude who develops it is very very nice coder, and its KISS so, you can use your imagination and damn, its the best software … i really think so.)

Also fwm (am not shure if its the right name… memory lags) well the one that was default years ago… damn thats also great too…

PS: appart of watching purns and browsing… the rest made via xterm so… i think… EvilWM for me.. is the best thing…

By: DougTheBug

DougTheBug — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:58:12 +0000

One word….

Ratpoison.

By: StillWaiting

StillWaiting — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:43:09 +0000

I tried tons of window managers and still I've not found the perfect one. What I'm looking for is a window manager, period: no panels, no popups and without useless menu. No way… I used fvwm, openbox, oroborus, oroborox, icewm, metacity and xfwm4 and tried a lot more. My perfect choice would be oroborus but it is abandoned and it lacks standard compliance (this in some case is not acceptable). I'm currently using openbox because it sucks less.

By: Guy

Guy — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:59:53 +0000

I use CrunchBang with LXDE and Launchy (Gnome-Do has too many deps)- when it boots up it's only using about 150mb of RAM whereas Gnome was using over 400mb. The only issue I have is that I can't get the shutodown button to work and have to use the command line.

By: Truefire

Truefire — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:15:04 +0000

LXDE. It's what XFCE should be. Fast and gnome-like. It can run on 64MB of RAM without issue. Google Lubuntu and Masonux. (same thing, but the latter exists already)

By: donlelek

donlelek — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:04:48 +0000

one vote for openbox… nice balance between lightweight and usability, tried fluxbox, a little too spartan, and xfce is not an option under 256 ram.

By: D Day

D Day — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:51:27 +0000

I would rip out my mouse and throw it away if I could. I use Gnome on my main machine because it’s what comes with plain vanilla Ubuntu. On my older machine I installed Xubuntu and am quite happy with that (xfce). I also like twm and fluxbox. I am not so married to any manager philosophy as I am happy with anything that works and doesn’t suck up my machine’s fixed resources to run, edit and compile or even browse the web.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:06:46 +0000

LXDE is not a window manager, it's a desktop environment. I am led to understand that the window manager installed with LXDE is Openbox, which is indeed very nice; I tried it with Crunchbang in a virtual machine on my MacBook. I still prefer fluxbox, mainly for tabbing support, which will never be supported in ob.

By: uht

uht — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:13:55 +0000

I use wmii on my netbook.
Light, clear, simple config file and well documented.
A must try for tiling WM lovers.

By: Hans

Hans — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:09:37 +0000

I use FVWM. Ultra fast, ultra light weight, ultra configurable.
Sure, you need to manually edit the config file. But it gives me an unparalleled level of control.