[Tfug] Best lightweight window manager?

Glen Pfeiffer glen at thepfeiffers.net
Fri Feb 1 09:37:53 MST 2013


On 01 Feb 2013, Christopher Robbins wrote:
> What's the best, lightweight window manager out there?  I don't 
> care as much about usability - as long as I can run dual 
> displays, I'm happy.
> 

How do you define best? Usability is normally a criteria. You 
mention memory, so does that mean that the best in your opinion 
will use the least memory?

That aside,

My top two preferences are FVWM and Fluxbox.

I've got Flux running right now, and it is using 6.2 MB of 
resident memory. I've heard that Blackbox and Openbox have lower 
memory usage, but if you're planning to install a taskbar, I say 
might as well use Flux.

On the other hand, there are some other extremely lightweight 
window managers with which I have no experience. That's why I 
haven't mentioned them.

-- 
Glen





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