Well, its been mentioned in the comments, but following a look at the Elive LiveCD, I thought I’d check out the Enlightenment 0.17 Window Manager on my Ubuntu setup. I’d already installed Enlightenment 0.16 fairly quick off of the bat, but having seen the latest version on the live CD, I was really impressed by the reworking of everything.

Sadly, Enlightenment 0.17 is still in development, and the Ubuntu repositories only contain the latest stable version. Fortunately, help was at hand.

This thread on UbuntuForums contains a guide to getting and using a script which downloads and installs the latest development version from CVS. Its a really nice Window Manager, and from my brief play around, is also very stable, despite its development status. There are also different themes available should you fancy a change from the default.

All in all, definitely a window manager I’ll probably use, and well worth a look.

Now if they can only get Compiz integration