[arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

[Jan Spakula]

Excerpts from Andrei Thorp's message of Mi Jun 10 23:02:39 +0200 2009:
>  - Xmonad and Awesome are both initally based on DWM, though both of
> them now have almost none of that original code left due to it being
> not actually that great (plus the wms changed a lot)

Just to crush the urban myth that gets mentioned more than it should be
recently: xmonad is not based on dwm. Yes, the idea of what should it do came
from dwm, but it was written from scratch (in haskell, no C code ever).