Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 18th Jul 2008 01:19 UTC
A window manager in GNU/Linux is a piece of software which controls placement and appearance of windows in a graphical user interface in X. All the WMs listed here can easily be obtained through your distribution's respective repositories.
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Ion is a very nice tiling window manager and has far greater usability than one might expect from screenshots or past experiences with other tiling window managers.
Perhaps its biggest flaw is the militant character of its creator, who often comes of as a jerk by calling Xinerama "unecological penis enlargement" and says most FOSS is "crap" (http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq/entries/Xinerama.html).
Then again, he did convince me of the beauty of non-anti-aliased fonts, so his opinions aren't all bad.
Anyway, if you want to try a tiling window manager that's willing to adapt to you until you adapt to it (you can use the mouse for basic tasks), try Ion.