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Another light-weight but still functional WM is XFCE, with XFCE4 (link: http://www.xfce.org/ ) it can (optionally) have various lightweight replacements to KDE / GNOME apps, such as a light file manager, text editor various panel plugins etc. and is very easy to customize including transparency while still taking less resources than KDE, GNOME or (of course) Windows.

and don't forget WindowMaker

It may have said in the article so my bad if I missed that line but; will there be more window managers reviewed?

Afterstep was my frist window manager years ago and loved having the complete config in one small file. It took a bit of time to customize after each install but alwasy did what I wanted with easily managed settings.

I skipped Window Maker and Fvwm95.

Enlightenment came next being the first window manager I got to play with that put the appearance first while keeping itself light weight (The Gieger theme, unusable but pretty). I remember it having wholes through windows.. not transparencies but acutal whole; if you clicked, it effected the window behind the one you had "missed". Config was less plesent than Afterstep but that was a tradeoff.

KDE is my more recent preference for convenience and configurability.

I'd love to see some reviews of the more obscure window managers though. These are all fairly main stream. Even if Fluxbox is minimalist and Afterstep is old, they are still recognizable. Any chance of reviewing some of the window managers that use a completely different paradime?

Give Enlightenment a shot. It operates more smoothly than KDE/Gnome and provides the eye candy as well.

Give enlightenment a shot. It operates more smoothly than Gnome/KDE and provides the eye candy as well.

I am making the transition to Linux using Ubuntu and I am tempted to jump into the deep end but I am going through the Ubuntu text first and articles like this just wet my appetite to get to the good stuff.

I actually don't really like all the bells and whistles even Fluxbox and Afterstep offer, for gui work I'll use Enlightenment release 16 thanks.. though building it from sources means I can kill the bloat in E17.

for me it went kde -> gnome -> xfce -> openbox -> wmii -> dwm. And I think I'm sticking to dwm.

Nice Afterstep, and Light Fluxbox