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(on Wikipedia)
abandoned [ 1 ] was https://web.archive.org/web/20190313003108/http://wmii.suckless.org/ [ 2 ] the author died: https://web.archive.org/web/20140208043925/http://www.lmt.uni-saarland.de/de/aktuelles/grelich.html
https://code.google.com/archive/p/wmii/
Forked into i3m, which has since become its own independent project.
Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://mate-desktop.org/
A desktop environment/window manager that continues GNOME version 2, after it was abandoned.
summary
Reasonable. The Pyra will use this by default.
I much prefer Openbox, but I wanted to try this a little.
TODO - make a proper page
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://edeproject.org/
A light window manager.
It was ported to the Zaurus SL-C1000..
(on Wikipedia)
http://joewing.net/projects/jwm/
(source)
A simple and straightforward window manager.
This one keeps being recommended, but I don't know why. It's not bad but it's just not good enough.
Joe's Window Manager
A keyboard-oriented window manager.
Well, it works. That's about all I can say about it.
Software >
https://tuomov.iki.fi/software/ [ 1 ] was http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
A keyboard-oriented window manager.
Clunky in places, and some things were non-obvious and needed some reading.
My hands hurt after using it for a little while, because the default hotkeys are Wrong. Heck, the defaults aren't just "not for me", the defaults are bad. Because of poor documentation, it's too much work for me to figure out how to customize it the way I want.
Abandoned - No longer under development, forked into notion
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnome.org/
One of the more popular window managers.
I tried it a long time ago. Tested very briefly. Strongly dislike because of speed issues. Didn't test for long enough to learn about the style of applications etc. I've developed a bias against Gnome in preference for KDE for reasons I can't articulate. Gnome is kinda pretty, but KDE keeps my attention.
Gnome 2 was forked and continued by a new team as MATE.
See also:
The window manager for Xfce
I've used it. I like it just fine. I just find it a bit too shiny for my tastes and prefer Openbox.
