Recommendations for lightweight Window Manager?

[Matt Seburn]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:46 AM, David J Patrick <djp-tnsZcVQxgqO2dHQpreyxbg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>
>>  The problem with emulating Vista's cuteness is that you also end up
>> emulating Vista's slowness.  So forget about GNOME/KDE.  My current
>> intention is to go with either Blackbox or Fluxbox as the WM.  Is
>> anybody aware of a competitive alternative, and especially do you have
>> experience with one?
>
> Openbox is nicer, and not much heavier than blackbox, LXDE have done some
> nice things , enlightenment is a shine, light-weight triumph, I'm currently
> playing with awesomeWM, which is only slightly friendlier than ratpoison.
> djp
>>

I've been using Awesome for.. probably close to 2 years now, and I
can't recommend it enough.  Any questions, feel free to ask.. and the
mailing list is really friendly and helpful too.

Also, don't know if I've introduced myself here yet.. my name is Matt,
I've been using Linux off and on for about 10 years now (since I was
an undergrad at Waterloo), but was kind of intimidated by the install
process until maybe 2 years ago now.  Now that I've taken the plunge I
can't go back.  I use Debian testing + Awesome and work as a web
developer here in Toronto.

Matt

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