What WM do you use?

What WM do you use?

  • Awesome

    Votes: 5 6.8%

  • Fluxbox (or Blackbox)

    Votes: 11 15.1%

  • Gnome

    Votes: 27 37.0%

  • IceWM

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ion

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • KDE

    Votes: 14 19.2%

  • TWM

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • WindowMaker

    Votes: 3 4.1%

  • XFCE

    Votes: 4 5.5%

  • Other (Please specify)

    Votes: 9 12.3%
  • Total voters
    73
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DatHak512

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So i know that stricktly speaking, some of these aren't *just* window managers, but i think they can still count.
If this has been done before, mods please delete this thread :).
 
doing fluxbox right now, but will give awesome a try this weekend
 
KDE on my day to day box, but windowmaker was my first, and I still love it on slower or high workload boxes.

 
- Enlightenment on my desktop and laptop
- screen on the server and elsewhere as needed
 
Voted other. Even though Gnome is the WM, I don't use it. I only interact with my fileservers through ssh.
 
Gnome does everything I want or need and is easily included with my OS (Debian) so I see no need for anything else.
 
I just ditched compiz-fusion in favor of awesome. Compiz suffers from the same deficiency as most other window managers: poor use of screen space. No amount of 3D effects or hardware acceleration can compensate for that. I've tried ion and dwm in the past, but found them lacking in one aspect or another; awesome seems to handle the tiling layout in a not-annoying way. I like the tagging system and rules-based window placement.

It's not all roses with awesome, though. Right now I'm using awesome with KDE, and I really, really miss having a menu. Hopefully 2.3 comes out soon, and will fix that. Fortunately, Konqueror's profile support is flexible enough to live with until a menu gets implemented.

BTW, the poll choices are kind of goofy. KDE and Gnome aren't window managers. Their default WMs are KWin and Metacity, respectively. Using one of those desktop environments doesn't preclude use of alternative window managers.
 
WindowMaker. Yes, people still use it. WMaker is fast, looks decent, doesn't require any silly X tricks to make it work properly and does everything a window manager should do without doing much more...Read that as "it manages my windows, gives me a way to theme the borders it puts on windows and the background, gives me a way to create icons for launching stuff and doesn't do much else beyond that."
 
[H]EMI_426;1032419138 said:
WindowMaker. Yes, people still use it. WMaker is fast, looks decent, doesn't require any silly X tricks to make it work properly and does everything a window manager should do without doing much more...Read that as "it manages my windows, gives me a way to theme the borders it puts on windows and the background, gives me a way to create icons for launching stuff and doesn't do much else beyond that."
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windowmaker is cool, but it always annoyed me that the only(?) way to switch desktops was to click that annoying clip thing. I much prefer being able to use the mousewheel to change desktops. Or at least fvwm-style "scroll the mouse off the edge of the screen." Maybe there's a way to change this behavior in wmaker, but I never found it.
 
...I have my keys set up so I hold control and hit the left or right arrow keys to cycle through my desktops.

Do you people not dig through the configs, or what? Fire up wmakerprefs, go to keyboard shortcut prefs and look for switch to next workspace or switch to previous workspace.
 
Eva_Unit_0 said:
windowmaker is cool, but it always annoyed me that the only(?) way to switch desktops was to click that annoying clip thing. I much prefer being able to use the mousewheel to change desktops. Or at least fvwm-style "scroll the mouse off the edge of the screen." Maybe there's a way to change this behavior in wmaker, but I never found it.
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there's a setting exactly to let you use the mouse wheel to switch virtual desktops
 
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