Desktops and Windows managers

[MASONTX]

Everyone may already know this information, but as a newbie I found it mind bogeling. Maybe some other newbie can benefit from it.

WINDOWS MANAGERS

MAJOR, Window Managers for X
FVWM, FVWM95, TWM/VTWM, MWM, CTWM, OLWM/OLVWM, wm2/wmx, AfterStep, AmiWM, Enlightenment, WindowMaker, SCWM, IceWM, Sawfish, Blackbox, Fluxbox, Metacity

Others: Window Managers for X: Other Window Managers
Beryl, Compiz, dwm, SithWM, Karmen, Integrity, QuarkWM, BadWM, XIGE, JWM, WWM, wmii, Stumpwm, TrsWM, Kahakai, PyWM, XWEM, Eclipse, Framer, Mavosxwm, WindowLab, Openbox, Hackedbox, Matchbox, Pekwm, Waimea, Clementine, Interface WM, ZWM, HaZe, PAWM, aewm++, NovaWM, Golem, Oroborus, Treewm, GwML, Heliwm, 5dwm, Mosquito, Maewm, QLWM, Phluid, Alloywm, Amaterus, Evilwm, Ratpoison, Ion, Perlwm,
Efsane II, 3Dwm, Swm, Puppe, YAWM, w9wm, larswm, PWM, PLWM, EPIwm, wmG, aewm, B4step, flwm, lwm, mlvwm, qvwm, mwm 2.0, GWM, 9wm, OSWM, awm, rtl, dxwm, hpwm, tekwm, m_swm, pswm, swm, tvtwm, mvwm, NCDwm, XDSwm, vuewm, 4Dwm, piewm, pmwm, uwm, wm, xwm


DESKTOPS
Major, Window Managers for X
GNOME, KDE, CDE, XFce

Others, Window Managers for X: Other Desktop Environments
LXDE, EDE, FVWM-Crystal, Athene Desktop, Metisse, JD4X, 3D-Desktop, XD640, XPde, ROX, Flowe Desktop, 5dwm, foXdesktop, EDE, UDE, The GREAT Desktop


No wonder there are so many different versions of linux. If you took just one distro, say Ubuntu, and tried every window manager, and every desktop, you would have a huge number of "different" versions.

[oz]

Here's another WM that is catching on with lots of Linux users:

about - awesome window manager

...and I'm sure there are plenty of others that haven't been listed here yet.