The best lightweight window manager for linux? [closed]

"How about Enlightenment - it's lightweight, and still has a bit of eye candy ;)

You can install it on Debian/Ubuntu by using apt-get install e16.

If you're running over a network, I would just use the ""failsafe xterm"" mode of your desktop manager."

"WindowMaker, giving all its sense to ""lightweight"".
(The only window manager which makes me think the system hanged because it loads in 1 second...)"

"You should use any Window Manager you want at the remote host.
Maybe you want to take a look at TightVNC and FreeNX for remote control software that performs reasonably well over broadband connections.
I recommend also enabling compression and X11 Forwarding through SSH if you decide to use only a lightweight window manager.

user@yourmachine $ ssh -XC remoteuseruser@remotemachine
remotemachine $ xclock &"

"screen is about the only (sort of) window manager I'd use over SSH, but this only works for command-line tools.

For using GUI applications remotely, most of the time you don't need to run a window manager on the remote machine - just use X11 forwarding, to forward the specific application.

By default it should be enabled when you ssh, but you can enable it with the ssh -X (upper-case X) flag:

ssh -X example.net

If you have an X-server running locally, simply execute the command, say firefox, and it will magically appear on your local machine (although the process will be running remotely)

You need to be running an X server locally for this, on Linux this isn't a problem. On Windows Xming is good. On OS X, X11.app can be installed from your OS Installation disc, or from the ""X11 for Mac OS X 1.0"" Apple download page"