Window Manager |
Main Advantages |
Main Disadvantages |
Enlightenment |
Full featured; easy to configure; only fully GNOME-compliant window manager |
Takes large amounts of system resources |
twm |
Clean treatment of interface; highly configurable; low memory operation |
Not many advanced features; not GNOME-compliant |
fvwm2 |
Very conservative use of system resources; uses less memory than twm , but manages to add a 3-D look |
Not readily configurable through simple point-and-click methods |
sawmill |
Easily extended and configured |
Limited functionality, as it is mostly used in association with GNOME |
KDE |
Provides an alternative, unifying framework similar to GNOME; very easy to configure. KDE's window manager is kwm |
Similar to GNOME in its heavy resource usage |
AnotherLevel |
A highly customized setup of fvwm2 ; very easy to configure |
Not as fully featured as GNOME or KDE |