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. -- | Locked coathanger in car. | | Good thing I had a key. | ) http://www.cuodan.net/~xsdg/ xsdg@freenode.org (
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