Do I need to run my windows manager?

[theglebe]

Do I need to run my windows manager before I run KDE and if not is how do i stop it (shut it down) I have TWM installed

Also what is the best Windows manager out there??

[majorwoo]

ok, alot of questions in there.

You need to run X before your window manager, what distro do you have?

If you set

/etc/inittab

to default to runlevel 5

it should startup for you

[wassy121]

there is no "best" window manager. I use GNOME so this list is a bit skewed.
Sawfish: used to be sawmill. Lots of extensibility through a lisp scripting interface. Bloat-a-licious.
Metacity: GNOME2 only. Really functional, rather small footprint. Not a lot of configurability, but my every day WM.
Enlightenment: I can't figure out how to use it effectively enough to keep it around too long, that is just me.
Kwm: I haven't used it much, but it seems to be rather solid, and fits into KDE well.
twm: classic. If you get used to it, it is actually quite usable.
WindowMaker: This is what I "grew up" on. Good ideas, good docking program. Not a whole lot of docking programs though.

Those are all the ones I have used. Here are ones I haven't used but have heard about:
icewm
blackbox
fluxbox (similar to blackbox)
fvwm