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Window Managers
The “Window Managers for X” site is extremely useful for keeping track of new Linux window managers. See http://winman.org.
• Afterstep – Based on Fvwm. Designed to give a similar look and feel to the NextStep interface.
• AnotherLevel – a custom configuration for fvwm2 which mimics the look and feel of Windows95.
• Blackbox – a light, fast, window manager. It doesn’t clutter the screen with too much junk, but it gets the job done efficiently.
• CDE – Common Desktop Environment. This is the default window manager on many commercial Unix systems. There is no free version.
• Enlightenment – Very configurable, and probably the coolest looking window manager, but a bit of a resource hog.
• Flwm – Fast, Light Window Manager. It has very few features, but is very small.
• Fvwm – F (?) Virtual Window Manager. This, along with Fvwm2, are old standbies in the Linux world. They are quite configurable, but configuration involves editing text files which are sometimes obscure.
• Fvwm2 – newer version of above.
• Fvwm95 – implementation of Fvwm2 configured to look and feel like Windows 95.
• Gnome – Gnome desktop environment. A themable collection of desktop utilities that can be used with different window managers. The current default window manager for a gnome session is Sawfish.
• Icewm – Ice Window Manager. Very small, very fast, quite configurable. On low memory/small hard drive machines, this one is my favorite. Configuration involves editing text files, but the syntax is extremely easy to understand. There are also a couple of third-party programs available which allow the user to configure Icewm using a graphical interface.
• KDE – K Desktop Environment. Many of the desktop utilities can be run under different window managers. I may be wrong, but I believe kikbd is the only program out there that allows the user to reconfigure the keyboard layout to different national keyboards on the fly, with one-click switching from one to the other. Unfortunately, this utility is no longer available under KDE 2.x.
• Kwm – the window manager that comes with the KDE desktop environment.
• Mwm – Motif window manager.
• Olwm – Open Look window manager.
• Sawfish – a small, efficient, configurable window manager that is now the default window manager with Gnome.
• Twm – Tab window manager.
• UDE – Unix Desktop Environment. In early development stages. An attempt to create a new type of desktop environment for Unix machines, including Linux.
• Windowmaker – One of the more popular window managers. Highly configurable and themable.
• XFce – “Cholesterol-Free Desktop Environment”. Includes its own window manager, a toolbar, a sound manager, a background manager, and a file manager. It has tearoff menus, up to twelve virtual desktops, etc. It is completely configurable with menus. Its toolbar looks like the one in CDE. I find it easy to use and to configure, and easy on system resources.