Fluxbox, just as nice as blackbox but only a little nicer to use.

/t

Fluxbox all the way!

When developing systems for vertical markets,
I use the application name on the login screen,
which fires up the oroborus wm,
which does nothing.
I put it in the background,
and the app in the forground.
Exiting the app logs the user back out.
If the user is aged or infirm, one can make things very easy for them,
by using gnomeconf and the accessibility options.
Each login can be made passwordless, as nothing but the app can be executed.
Ownership of settings and config files can be set to root, hardening the system against accidental or malicious misuse.
The Ororobos wm has got to be the best choice for this type of computing.

Ion is a great, light-weight tiling window manager that emphasizes keyboard control.

Fluxbox.... the greatest wm ever!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah! and the great E!

IceWm is very lite-weight, and stable.
It allows you to change the menus/hotkeys, and that's very awesome and unique.

The amount of themes isn't that much, but it does.

Hans.

I use KDE on any Linux distro I use,because it is easy,flexible,and beautiful. Also it looks like Mac OS 9 meets XP and works the same. What's sad is most on this page "claim" to use something in fear of being called a "newbie". Silly them! KDE will always be the leader!

I use Tracker, which is the desktop for BeOS, and it's the
best integrated desktop where all apps work well with each
other.

Fluxbox or FVWM, depending on whether I'm in a "pretty" sort of mood.

Fluxbox

What no fluxbox?

FVWM-Crystal is my fav

GNU bash is my favorite desktop environment ;) ...

Love all the screen real estate it gives me. Four 3x3 virtual desktops by default.

Another FluxBox fan here.

Where's Fluxbox ?

I use Fvwm2.

desktop manager i use on my debian 3.1 sarge is fluxbox, is nice when you have good style in it, of course when i use desktop manager :}

I don't, yet, use Linux on my computer. It's old and can't properly run any version of it. But when I get a new one, I will be running the new Linspire 5-0 so my primary interface will be KDE.

it's lightweight, and have TABs, but I think change it (problems with polish fonts)

ratpoison

fluxbox

I vote Fluxbox for the simple text of the configs... very lightweight and easy to customize styles.

I don't need the bloat of KDE or GNOME 'desktop environments'. I use Fluxbox 0.9.12, one
of the most feature-packed yet lightweight window managers I have ever seen. To start
up an app, I use wmdrawer. I have lots and lots of RAM to play with, and X starts up in just
a few seconds. I use asmem to watch my memory and swap usage, wmCalClock for the
time and date, fbpager for my pager. I have this setup on a p2 laptop, a p3 laptop and a
CeleronM laptop. Even the Pentium II is zippy with this lightweight setup.

As you can tell, I am not a newbie. However, I am trying to 'convert' some Windoze
users, so it's good to see the common problems (and solutions) of new users.
I am tired of hearing that "it's too hard" or "but that's what came on my computer
[Windoze]. I'm hoping to learn a few things about 'converting' people via your articles
and these types of user comments.

other GUI is Xandros

Dual head CAD workstation.
2D/3D VariCAD (architectural).
Electrical Engineer in Private Practice, SOHO.

ratpoison for MythTV

fluxbox

Fluxbox, Afterstep

fluxbox

fvwm95

I've tried KDE, GNOME and XFCE4.2 before staying with fluxbox. The simplicity of the wm is perfect, at least for me. I especially like features like the keys file. Also the need for manual configuration is perfectly in line with my current linux-distro.
The fact that it eats almost no resources compared with the aforementioned three is another reason to love this feature-rich adorable little wm.

FluxBox... the lightest!
Too cool!

I use Fluxbox on all my Linux desktop/laptop systems, and just recently tried out Idesk. Idesk allows you to add Icons to your flux desktop easily. Need some good Icons?...download the Gentoo Icon pack from the main Gentoo site . Fluxbox is lite and fast on my slower systems. It has many themes avaliable for it and is fairly easy to customize. You can go with a basic theme, or a full blown theme with a nice background image, Icons in the menus and on the desktop.

I use Slackware, but man those Gentoo Icons are sweet.

Gentoo Icon pack: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/icons.xml
Idesk: http://idesk.sourceforge.net

My primary X-Desktop environment is Fluxbox. Lightweight, fast, and very customizable.

FVWM

Other: Openbox

One of my Laptops runs with Libranet (a great Debian derivate) and this unique "Libranet window manager". Originally it is IceWM with Gnome apps (desklets a.o.). Performance is like IceWM on steroids :)
There are no speed problems, even with 650 MHz CPU and 256 MB RAM.
My other IBM Thinkpad (PIII/800MHz/256MB RAM) goes with Slackware 10.1 and, of course, Fluxbox.

regards,
Bernd
Muenster, Germany

- say NO to software patents! -

As you get more sophisticated you move away from the picture and point desktops like kde and take up something like fluxbox. Then if you want real simplicity and flexibility you move on to ion. It's the same sort of leap. Fluxboxies feel the same moving to ion as they originally did moving to fluxbox. Bit disorientating at first and takes a little while to see why it's a better choice.

:-)