Do you have a preferred Window Manager?

Hanging out on this this forum has inspired me to re-build my lab over the past few months. I was even thinking about going for a LPI or RHCSA cert.

As part of upgrading my lab to prep for one of these certs - I was mulling over whether I should move to a different window manager. I'm not really interested in KDE or Gnome or any of the heavy weight desktop platforms. I'm seeking something for my main desktop which I would run Redhat or other Desktop VMs from.

I have been using twm for as long as I've used Unix and it's variants and I've never found anything better.

Does anyone have any other recommendations for light-weight window managers that they like?

I had used Sawmill for a short while as well. But I went back to twm. Currently, I'm looking at vtwm.

Thanks.

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splinux

Do you know openbox ?

jdancer

I use the i3 window manager from i3 - improved tiling wm under Arch Linux.

I have no use for desktop managers.

zipolini

fluxbox is my love

love it for its customizability

paul78

Thanks for the suggestions. I've been using ctwm which seems like an updated version of tww.

Openbox seems to be built for KDE and Gnome so that's probably not going to work since I don't use either.

I like i3 - at least it looks very clean - but alas I have a Nvidia card and I do not think that Xrandr is supported.

I'm going to give Fluxbox a whirl. I just downloaded the sources and compiled it. It looks simple and clean and looks like it has active support which is a plus.

alxx

I've been sticking with XFCE with fedora . Currently xfce spin of fedora 17.

Mostly in vm's or on boxes with intel graphics.
Xfce Desktop Environment
Xfce Wiki - start

About Spin: Xfce

Might also want to try lxde About Spin: LXDE

Fedora Spins

Great thing with the spins is you can test them as a live cd, then install if you like them.

I've switched from using one box with everything installed to using multiple vm's.
Pretty much a vm for each of my own projects(vm + repo).

Slowly switching to kvm and weaning myself way from vmware (except for on mac).

ally_uk

Gnome 2.0, XFCE, or LXDE

zipolini

they are desktop environments, not just window managers