Here's a nice selection of fast & efficient window managers in case KDE, Gnome & the likes run too slow.

IceWM ( Nodsu's favourite ) (http://www.icewm.org/)

http://users.skynet.be/fa426454/images/other/icewm.png (http://aragorn.cc.ttu.ee/~t990820/suse-icewm.png)

FluxBox (http://www.fluxbox.org)

http://users.skynet.be/fa426454/images/other/fluxbox.png (http://drds.free.fr/piti/root3.png)

PekWM (http://www.pekwm.org/)

http://users.skynet.be/fa426454/images/other/pekwm.png (http://angel2k.multimania.com/captures/mtx2_mod.png)

You can also mix them, for example use fluxbox with Gnome ( instead of the default MetaCity WM ).

There are quite a few of those faster, more "subtle" WM, if you have any good ones, post them here.

FvWM (http://www.fvwm.org) ( probably one of the oldest WMs )

http://users.skynet.be/fa426454/images/other/fvwm.png (http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Tavis_Ormandy-desk-1152x864/screenshot.jpg)

BlackBox (http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/)

http://users.skynet.be/fa426454/images/other/blackbox.png (http://www.netmeister.org/screenshots/bb_no_toolbar.png)

You left out WindowMaker..

Fedora Core 1 on my work machine:

http://www.tud.ttu.ee/~t990820/FC1-WM.png

I did not forget, I just want to leave the chance for a few others to participate.;)

AfterStep (http://www.afterstep.org/)

http://www.afterstep.org/screenshots/Stormy_Skies.jpg.small.jpg (http://www.afterstep.org/screenshots/Stormy_Skies.jpg)

I guess I'm a sort of extremist here - either full KDE or no X at all :)

I used to use Gnome + Enlightenment some years ago but changed to KDE (for personal reasons ;))

Well either KDE or Gnome were way too slow on my K6-2 450mhz. It wasn't a ram problem since that machine has 384mb & more then half of it was empty. I installed WindowMaker & IceWM & they're blazing fast on that machine.

Most of the time it's in Runlevel 3 anyways, since it's only crunching seti but I sometimes use it for something & Gnome/KDE are so unresponsive on it, I sometimes just go back Runlevel to do the commands.:dead:

I'm gonna play around with the other available WMs & see which I decide to keep.:)

Kahakai (http://kahakai.sourceforge.net/)

http://users.skynet.be/fa426454/images/other/kahakai.png (http://kahakai.sourceforge.net/images/screenshots/princeofchaos-screenshot-jun28.png)

BlackBoxWM (http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/)

http://images.freshmeat.net/screenshots/25126_thumb.jpg (http://images.freshmeat.net/screenshots/25126.jpg)

*Edit* BlackBox is no longer maintained. Some of the BlackBox programmers are now working on either FluxBox or Kahakai.

XFCE (http://www.xfce.org)

http://xfce.org/images/screenshots/default_thumbnail.png (http://xfce.org/images/screenshots/default.png)

Here's a review of some of the aforementioned WMs:

NewsForge | Four alternative Linux window managers (http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/18/1937231&tid=130&tid=2)