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Therefore extremely powerful and versatile, these window managers also carry the additional benefit of being faster and more resource efficient than pre-defined desktop environments. Interestingly, the super-lightweight LXDE environment is itself built on the Openbox window manager. | Therefore extremely powerful and versatile, these window managers also carry the additional benefit of being faster and more resource efficient than pre-defined desktop environments. Interestingly, the super-lightweight LXDE environment is itself built on the Openbox window manager. | ||
There are two types of Window Manager: '''Stacking''' and '''Tiling'''. These names denote how application windows will behave on your desktop: | |||
== Openbox == | * '''Stacking window managers''' are by far the most popular, and essentially allows application windows to be moved freely around the screen, and may overlap - or 'stack' - upon one another, hence the name. All popular desktop environments (e.g. XFCE, KDE, Gnome, etc.) use stacking window Managers. | ||
* '''Tiling window managers''' - as the name would suggest - tile application windows; each will have their own place on the screen. However, unlike conventional tiling as one would imagine, these window managers are usually very flexible, and allow for a multitude of different tiling patterns to suit personal taste and preference. Where stacking window managers focus on using the mouse for navigation, tiling window managers focus on the utilisation of the keyboard instead. As such, they can be much faster to use. | |||
== Openbox (Stacking) == | |||
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== FluxBox == | == FluxBox (Stacking) == | ||
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== IceWM == | == IceWM (Stacking) == | ||
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