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Maybe I'm becoming more and more of a luddite... I played with compiz a bit maybe a year ago using XFCE and it was pretty cool, but that's all it was. It didn't actually do anything to improve my computing experience other than look cool. That makes it mostly a waste of electrons, IMO.

But then, I now use wmii almost exclusively, if I'm not just using plain ol' screen.

damn, you be a good poster and go check your links and there goes that frsit psot. oh well...

I like dwm, it's a rather tiny and simple window manager. Watching their mailing list is entertaining at times, the amount of effort invested in deleting lines of code is pretty impressive.

http://www.suckless.org/wiki/dwm

The tarball for it is only 19k, and doing a wc -l on all the *.c files gives 1781 lines. RSS on my system right now is only 1336K, which is smaller than a single bash shell. Probably not something someone infatuated with glittery stuff would like to run but it's definitely a small program.

That link in your signature takes me to a page containing nothing but links in German.

http://wmii.suckless.org/ looks like it might be the official WMII home page, but I'm not sure.

Regarding window manager, I use wmii that will arrange the windows efficiently, but only works on X11. I have to use Windows at work, so I use an GridMove, an autohotkey script that does something similar and works on on dualscreen.