Opening the Windows...Window Manager Question

Coffee break
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Hi Folks,

So one of the reasons I even looked at OpenMadriva was because it was a Plasma/KDE focused distro. Specifically because I wanted to learn what all the fuss was about KDE.

My reaction to KDE at this point? Meh.

Some of the KDE software? Abs-a-freakin-lutely will I always be installing them.

Which brings me around to what’s next. It’s time to start playing around with plain old window managers, rather than a full DE.

And I’ve narrowed my selection to i3 (tiling), Icewm (floating), and Fluxbox (floating). All are in our repos.

Some of the suckless stuff looks pretty neat but I don’t know if I want to play with that at this time.

Obviously I’m going to have to actually try them out. So I’ll be installing on a new partition to experiment.

All of this background finally leads to asking those of you who use a WM (rather than a DE):

What is it you prefer about them?

And if you use one of the ones I mentioned (i3, icewm, fluxbox) why that one?

Thanks

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I can see where you’re coming from. I always have a full desktop environment, and a window manager installed so that I can switch between them as I wish. The window manager I like to use is awesome. For you that’s in the rock extra repo. I highly recommend it as it’s well configured out of the box, and you can do whatever you want very easily beyond that. Out of the three that you mentioned, I have a lot of experience with icewm and I like that one a lot. I know others around here do as well. As for why I do, I guess it’s because you get everything you need and nothing you don’t and configuring it beyond that is very easy. I haven’t used it on OpenMandriva, so I don’t know what the defaults are, but they’re usually very sensible. For example, they are on Mageia. Good luck on your journey. I’m sure you will have fun.

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Thanks.

I know I looked at awesome a long time ago, and while I’m sure the program hasn’t changed my "tuxability :penguin: " most certainly has. I’ll add it to the list