Which window manager should I use with Cinnamon

marmistrz · Post by **marmistrz** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 3:33 am

I have a couple of them installed, noticed it when fsgamer's dependency openbox changed the alternative.

  1            /usr/bin/marco      30        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/metacity   60        manual mode
  3            /usr/bin/muffin     60        manual mode
  4            /usr/bin/openbox    90        manual mode

Which of them should I best use? Why?

Pjotr · Post by **Pjotr** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:31 am

Muffin. It's the default WM for Cinnamon.

marmistrz · Post by **marmistrz** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:36 am

Wondering: is there any reason why Cinnamon chose muffin?

Post by **Monsta** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:43 am

Muffin was forked from Mutter by the Mint team.

marmistrz · Post by **marmistrz** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:45 am

And why did the Cinnamon team decide to use Mutter/Muffin and not Compiz, Openbox, Marco?

Pjotr · Post by **Pjotr** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 8:27 am

marmistrz wrote:And why did the Cinnamon team decide to use Mutter/Muffin and not Compiz, Openbox, Marco?

Because it apparently suited them better to do so. For more details, including the sordid technical reasons, please contact the Cinnamon dev team.

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