On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:57:46PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > > You don't have to choose one of those, there are lots of varied window > managers, and advocates for each. There's an overview here on fd.o: > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Desktops. Many of those are in ports.
That's a much shorter list than I would have expected to find.
This offers an incomplete (but longer) list of window managers, all of
which are copyfree licensed:
http://copyfree.org/software/#WM
What I have been using for a few years is actually first in alphabetical
order there -- AHWM. It is quite minimal and fast, with great keyboard
shortcut support (a necessity, given that it's intended to be primarily
keyboard driven).
A much more comprehensive list of window managers is the Comprehensive
List of Window Managers for Unix:
http://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html
KDE, GNOME, and XFCE are more than window managers -- they are "desktop
environments". Some people like that kind of bloat . . . err, I mean
"that kind of feature-richness". Other examples include GNUstep (which
uses WindowMaker as its default window manager) and Enlightenment. If I
*had* to choose a complete DE, rather than just a window manager, I'd
probably go with Enlightenment. Since I don't have to, though, I stick
with something *truly* lightweight like AHWM.
Your mileage may vary, of course.
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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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