i want to know all WM

[Abdulla]

Hi

my first post :)

well, i just want to know all WM for linux, i know:

KDE
GNOME
Fluxbox
Blackbox
Enlightenment
Litestep
Afterstep
Qvwm
XOde

What else? (if there is more :D)

sorry for my english :)

[trc]

http://www.plig.org/xwinman/

[Hayl]

Originally posted by Abdulla
KDE
GNOME

KDE and Gnome are not Window Mangers, they are Desktop Environments. Gnome uses the Metacity Window Manager by default, and KDE uses the KWM Window Manager.

If you wish, you can set up KDE or Gnome to use any Window Manager you want, if you don't like the defaults.

[Abdulla]

Thank you trc :)


Hayl: That's new info for me, Thanks alot :)
so linux have only KDE and GNOME for desktop environments, or there is more?

[Ludootje]

xfce is also a desktop manager.

Hayl: KDE's default window manager is kwin, not kwm.

other WM's: twm, vtwm, ctvm, openbox, waimea, fvwm, sawfish, metacity, windowmaker, 3dwm. there are others afaik. search for them on freshmeat.net (huge database of GNU/Linux applications)

[jlmb]

I knew that i read (actually i didnt read it) a huge list somewhere:
here it goes:

Originally posted by sonictooth
[ 3dwm 4dwm 5dwm 9wm aewm aewm++ aewm2 afterstep ahwm alde alloywm amaterus amiwm arswm asclassic athene awm b4step berlin blackbox blwm bowman cde clementine ctwm cwm devolution dtwm dwim dxwm ede efsane efsane II enlightenment epiwm evilwm ewm eXode failsafewm 'flowe desktop' fluxbox flwm foxdesktop freedom desktop fvwm fvwm2 fvwm95 gnome golem great gtkwm gwm gwml hackedbox haze heliwm hpwm icewm 'interface wm' interviews ion iwm jewel kde/kwm larswm lwm m swm maewm matchbox metacity mlvwm mosquito mvwm mwm nawm ncdwm novawm olvwm olwm openbox oroborus oswm ovwm owm pawm pekwm perlwm phluid phluid piewm plwm pmwm pstwm pswm puppet pwm qlwm qvwm ratpoison rox rtl sapphire sawfish screen scwm swm swim sxwm tekwm tkwm treewm tvtwm twin twm ude uwm vtwm vuewm vwm w2kwm w9wm waimea 'window maker' 'windows-el wm' wm wm2 wmg wmx wwm xdswm xfce xnwm xpwm xwm yawm zwm]

if anyone asks which window manager they should use/try give them this list, this is an interesting comparison to windows which has...one

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54400&highlight=window+AND+manager+AND+list

[serz]

Large list of Window Managers you got there...

[jlmb]

yeah i know, more WMs you could ever dream off

[Abdulla]

WOW! thats really alot WMs :)

just form reading and looking at screenshots, i like:
icewm
FluxBox
Litestep

i should try them.

Thanks all :)

[Pierre Lambion]

My favorite one is ion but I like windowlab quite a lot too.

The first splits your screen in parts so that you can maximize use of screen without overlap. Very customizable (lua scripting). You should customize keybindings (switch desktop, switch frame, go to right, up, ...)

Windowlab has an interesting menu system (right click on the task bar and launch options are shown horizontally). It also has a different switching model. Most important to me is the way it forbid windows to get out of the desktop, except to the bottom (but not beyond titlebar).

Both are on freshmeat of course; you should try them because explaining them is almost impossible.

Cheers,
P.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by Pierre Lambion
My favorite one is ion but I like windowlab quite a lot too.


WOOOOOOOO!!!

Finally someone who has even heard of ion before!!!

I used to use it nearly exclusively. As soon as I installed a new distro/*NIX, that was the first piece of software I'd install. If it was available precompiled, I'd install it. If there wasn't a precompiled version available for that system, I'd try my darn'dest to compile one for it! I only recently switched to Gnome, though-- it came that my wife was using my logged-in user fairly frequently, and as you already know, I'm sure, ion can be baffling for someone who doesn't know how to use it!

:cool: ion :cool:

[mchangun]

So can i configure KDE to run fluxbox as the WM??

Btw, what IS the difference between a Desktop Environment and WM?

[Ludootje]

Originally posted by mchangun
So can i configure KDE to run fluxbox as the WM??
Yes you can. You need to edit a configuration file to do this, but I can't remember which one.
See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37946 for alternate ways to use another WM. If you search for this in the 'Window/Desktop Managers' forum, I'm sure you'll find it. Search for a topic containing 'kde' and 'wm' posted by me. It several years old I think though, so it might be gone already.

Originally posted by mchangun
Btw, what IS the difference between a Desktop Environment and WM?
A wm simply places windows from apps where they belong on the desktop, and have some small extra stuff like a taskbar & a menu. A DE however also contains all sort of apps & utilities which are written using the same graphical toolkit (GTK+ or GTKmm for Gnome, QT for KDE). All though apps look the same and comply to some standards defined by the DE. I think that's the main difference.

[Hayl]

Originally posted by Ludootje
Hayl: KDE's default window manager is kwin, not kwm.

pretty close guess tho for someone without QT/KDE on his sytem :)

[Ludootje]

Originally posted by Hayl
pretty close guess tho for someone without QT/KDE on his sytem :)
heh yeah good guess then ;)

just looked it up - apparently there used to be a 'kwm', which is now replaced by 'kwin'.

http://www.google.be/linux?hl=nl&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%2Bkwm+%2Bkwin&btnG=Google+zoeken&meta=
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3744 (go to the 'Kwin and Kicker' part)