I use lwm as a window manager, myself. All I want is a quick way to launch xterms and be able to hide and move windows around as I like. 

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From: 	yid@softhome.net[SMTP:yid@softhome.net]
Sent: 	Friday, January 03, 2003 11:59 AM
To: 	Jeff Flowers
Cc: 	philipchristian2003@yahoo.co.uk; yid@softhome.net; netbsd-help@netbsd.org; webmaster@datazap.net
Subject: 	Re: lightweight wms

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:43:13PM -0500, Jeff Flowers wrote:
> You're right, it is a hog, as is Gnome. Why everyone wants to turn
> Unix into Windows is beyond me.

That's the bad thing about Linux fans, most have their heart set on 
replacing Windows and don't have a clue about what makes Unix better.

> > Plain X without *any* wm is impossible.
> 
> I don't use a wm at all. I set up everything with via my .xresource
> and .xinitrc.

Interesting. Have you tried ratpoison? It is a window manager (if you want 
to call it that :-) ) designed to be like the "screen" utility for text 
mode. It needs no libraries and supplies no window borders or most typical 
functions of wms. It's a bit too bare bones for me (though I do like 
screen) but I think you'd like it.