xfce4 (and, consequently, xfwm4) I like xfwm4 because it allows me to do everything with the keyboard (which is one of the reasons I really liked ion), but it doesn't force me to, like ion does. Also, it also gives me the eye-candy lovin' that I crave (which was another drawback of ion). Additionally, I can have as many workspaces as I want (I have 11 full atm :o), and I can create them on the fly with a key-combo; that means I can have the majority of my applications maximized.
my list of past window managers, in no specific order
relatively recently:
oroborus + keylaunch (one ancestor of xfwm4)
I like oroborus for basically the same reasons that I like xfwm4 (they
are pretty much the same WM wrt interacting with the user)
ion
I like ion because it allows me to do everything without using
the mouse; I can organize my windows efficiently and in a
non-overlapping manner. Also, it lets me name my workspaces so I can
access them all quickly.
metacity (another ancestor of xfwm4)
I like metacity because of its appearance and it's user interaction.
Unfortunately, it doesn't allow me to control everything quite as easily
as oroborus. Additionally, changing keymaps is a pain unless you run
GNOME (which I don't).
waimea
Similar reasons to oroborus. I stopped using waimea because the main
developer went on vacation and didn't come back within a year. I was
planning on installing kahakai, but I installed oroborus first (I had
used oroborus on and off during the past months/years)
long time ago:
windowmaker
enlightenment
afterstep
I don't run GNOME or KDE because of their high memory and disk-space consumption.
Additionally, they both have a massive amount of baggage to install with them, and are
both very difficult to completely remove.
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