Lite Linux Window Managers: Three Choices

fvwm

Of the three, fvwm looks most like a
‘normal’ window manager. It’s pretty basic, though. When you start it up for
the first tine, there’s no desktop decoration at all. No menu bar, no docking
bay; the only thing you can do is to click on the desktop, which fires up a
basic menu.

However, one of the options on the menu allows you to create your own
configuration file. The form (which isn’t wildly user-friendly) allows you to
set up modules which will provide some desktop furniture (a pager and icon
manager, for example). Graphically, though, the modules are pretty horrible
– I’d rather just stick with no desktop furniture at all and just use
the menu.

Linux Planet.