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Lightweight X window manager/environment

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My machine is seriously underpowered, and I think I need to start conserving every spare cycle. I know that my Gnome environment seems to underperform compared to my coworkers' KDE setups. But if I'm going to make that big of a switch, I might as well consider running something even lighter.

Is it possible to survive on a lightweight window manager and still run modern apps (Firefox, Eclipse, OpenOffice)? What's a good candidate window manager for me to try, and what do I need to know?

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skiphoppy Avatar asked Sep 22 '08 16:09

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The window managers listed below all subscribe to the lightweight and fast approach. They are faster than fully fledged window managers like KDE or Gnome and trim down on most visual distractions. Which one you pick will be mostly determined by your own taste and what you can get to run.

There's a subfamily of these window managers, notably those which attempt to let you do everything by keyboard and let you tile your applications with minimal screen real estate waste. These can feel funny if you come from mouse-oriented window managers. XMonad and ratpoison are members of this family.

  • xfce
  • ratpoison
  • fluxbox
  • awesome -1, cannot handle minimize to tray
  • XMonad
  • dwm
  • fvwm (codebase for another WMs)
  • icewm
  • Englightenment
  • wmii
  • openbox
  • pekwm
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