icewm Reviews

With Icewm you don’t use up your time searching the Web for "how to" do this or that. All configuration items have obvious names and syntax, and are in text files with obvious locations and names. In a word: KISS !

Number one choice, if you grew on XP. It has no superfluous features, yet any I ever realy used in other WMs is not missing here.

good C++ WM

Great WM

Favorite

Very nice and easy to configure window manager! But unfortunately it lacks a good (and complete) documentation.

Really nice, I have deployed it in a high school. But would like to know if it is possible to display text on the panel (username) like genmon on xfce?

Great WM. But no transparency.

Really good balance between features/resources used. Good support for standards which makes the WM compilant with almos any application out there.

Lightweight, customizable more than most window managers. It can look like anything, and there are themes on box-look.org to help you.

Lightweight and full of features. Very easy configuration.

I started using it on Dapper (Ubuntu 6.06) about 2 years ago on a laptop w/ 64 MB ram--GNOME took forever, but IceWM was fairly decent. Now that laptop's dead and I am using a netbook; IceWM is still my favorite window manager, and it uses a lot less screen and RAM than many others. (Yes, I have tried FLWM, TWM, PWM, Openbox, and the like...)

Lightweight and full of features. Very easy configuration. The best WM around!!!