If you want an adaptable window manager that doesn't drain your resources, try Openbox. Its latest version, 3.4.2, released this month, has several visual improvements and dozens of new usable features.

A window manager handles the placement and appearance of windows in a desktop environment. A desktop environment not only includes a window manager but also applications to place icons on the desktop, automount devices, manage sessions, add panels, and so on. The GNOME desktop environment bundles the Metacity window manager, KDE has Kwin, and Xfce runs Xfwm.

Since it's easy to customize, many people replace their stock window managers with Openbox. It can run inside both GNOME and KDE (but not Xfce), replacing their native window managers. It can also be used as a lightweight desktop environment on its own.

Easier to get started

Openbox is distributed as a single package, but users should also download ObConf, the Openbox configurator.

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