POLL: What WM do you use?

[n0cmonkey]

What Window Manager do you use? Im a blackbox user although 9wm was interresting.

 

[FUBAR]

Can I get a vote for TWM? It's all I use over vnc although I've heard that bb or enlightenment should be low enough in overhead to do it nicely.

Who says your servers needs heads?

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< Can I get a vote for TWM? It's all I use over vnc although I've heard that bb or enlightenment should be low enough in overhead to do it nicely.

Who says your servers needs heads? >>



Added twm. E has traditionally been kind of resource intensive, thats the main reason I use bb. Its very light.

 

[Nothinman]

WindowMaker, mainly because I know the shortcuts and I'm too lazy to setup something else.

 

[thornc]

n0cmonkey: you forgot about Xfce!! The one that I use in more computers!

I also use KDE and IceWM, but I prefer XFCE for its CDE feeling...

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< n0cmonkey: you forgot about Xfce!! The one that I use in more computers!

I also use KDE and IceWM, but I prefer XFCE for its CDE feeling... >>



I didnt forget about it, just figured no one used it.

BTW, added twm agains ince it didnt look like it added last time... :/

 

[rewap]

fluxbox

It's blackbox but with active devlopment and few extra features, without increasing bloat.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< fluxbox

It's blackbox but with active devlopment and few extra features, without increasing bloat. >>



Blackbox development has been renewed. Thats onf of the reasons I havent bothered with fluxbox

 

[BlackOmen]

WindowMaker on my Cyrix 6x86 box with 32 mb ram - works like a charm.
For some reason I started using KDE on my Duron, don't know why.

 

[RalphTheCow]

I use blackbox because I only have 32 MB. I want to try KDE/kwm and Gnome/sawfish if I ever get more memory.

Where is blackbox development? All I ever find are the broken links to alug.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< I use blackbox because I only have 32 MB. I want to try KDE/kwm and Gnome/sawfish if I ever get more memory.

Where is blackbox development? All I ever find are the broken links to alug. >>



Search sourceforge.

EDIT: Sourceforge appears to be down for mainenance right now

 

[KenCleanAirSystem]

Enlightenment for me. I've tried quite a few of them (Gnome, KDE, IceWM, WindowMaker, Blackbox) and I always end up back in Enlightenment. I just installed Fluxbox the other day to check it out, and while its very nice I just prefer the look of Enlightenment.

 

[jhu]

i use enlightenment because i'm cool

 

[TheWart]

Heres another vote for fluxbox: quick, easy to use, and cool looking.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< Heres another vote for fluxbox: quick, easy to use, and cool looking. >>



Added fluxbox for you all that use it...

 

[jhu]

hey, what about those of us who forgo window managers?

 

[Nothinman]

hey, what about those of us who forgo window managers?

Obviously this poll doesn't pertain to you.

 

[CTho9305]

ctwm, but i voted twm

 

[Elledan]

Currently iceWM, but I might switch to ROX after I've tried it.

 

[cureless]

What does "forgo window managers" mean? Do you use X primitives or do you only use console? If the former, there should be an option of none.

Enlightenment is my WM. I used Window Maker for a while, Afterstep for a while, blackbox for a while kde for a while, sawfish, etc.

Blackbox is too minimalistic. (I would run this on my Ipaq but there's a problem with the monocrome version of blackbox, so I run ice there). Enlightenment is not that bloated .... at least not for "todays" machines.
When you look at the footprint of gnome (no pun intended) or kde for that matter and compare it to enlightenment you'll see it's not that bad. Then again, I don't run enlightenment on my firewall, I just use the console there.

cl

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< What does "forgo window managers" mean? Do you use X primitives or do you only use console? If the former, there should be an option of none. >>



I think it meant console only. And either way if they dont use one they dont need to vote in the poll



<< Enlightenment is my WM. I used Window Maker for a while, Afterstep for a while, blackbox for a while kde for a while, sawfish, etc. >>



KDE isnt a WM (which is why I did not include it in the poll).



<< Blackbox is too minimalistic. (I would run this on my Ipaq but there's a problem with the monocrome version of blackbox, so I run ice there). >>



I like how minimalistic it is. It keeps my slow hardware running great.



<< Enlightenment is not that bloated .... at least not for "todays" machines. >>



The more recent versions are supposed to be a lot better too.

 

[cureless]

<< [KDE isnt a WM (which is why I did not include it in the poll). >>



The original version of kde included its own window manager, you couldn't mix it with other window managers as you do today.
It might have been called kwm or whatever, but it was still sort of KDE window manager. That was one of the main differences between kde and gnome in the beginning, I remember the discussions on trying to make kde play nice with a window manager.

cl

 

[n0cmonkey]

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<< [KDE isnt a WM (which is why I did not include it in the poll). >>



The original version of kde included its own window manager, you couldn't mix it with other window managers as you do today.
It might have been called kwm or whatever, but it was still sort of KDE window manager. That was one of the main differences between kde and gnome in the beginning, I remember the discussions on trying to make kde play nice with a window manager.

cl >>



I did include kwm in my poll

 

[Electrode]

kwm whenever possible. Spare me your anti-KDE rhetoric, I don't want to hear it.

When kwm is NOT possible, I'm usually stuck with twm, which is almost as bad as the stippled background that X defaults to. :disgust: