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Re:Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome by mrweasel on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @04:06AM (#15795565)
I'm actually somewhat concerned that in the move to Wayland those of us who just want the window manager, and not a desktop environment will be forgotten. To me it seems silly to use a lot of processing power on a desktop environment that want be seen or used most of the time anyway.

Evilwm still seems like the window manager that got thing mostly right to me. It draws the windows and there's a keyboard short cut for opening an Xterm (and for moving and resizing the windows), you don't really need much more than that. Sadly it seem that the focus for the simplest window managers is tiling, which I also to like.

Hopefully a non-tiling, dead simple window manager for Wayland will appear in the future.

Re:Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome by munchor on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @04:19AM (#15795621)
You should see if any of these fits your needs:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wayland#Window_managers...

I too have been longing for an Openbox port for Wayland but have sticked to Sway in the meanwhile.

Re:Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome by mxuribe on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @09:18AM (#15797470)
I've never heard of EvilWM until your comment. I'd be curious to test it out, but wondered if there are any more screenshots of it. (This one is just not enough to judge: http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/images/cap1.jpg )
Re:Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome by enriquto on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @04:32AM (#15795698)
evilwm is great! the neat interface creates quite a stir in my lab