During the early era of this thread, I spent a few weeks trying out a great many of the WMs that people were mentioning. Through it, I ended up sticking with fluxbox, but it was far from a wasted effort. The process caused me totally re-think, re-evaluate and re-configure all aspects of my fluxbox setup, adopting various new ideas and resulting in something better suited to my usage. A very useful thread!
For example, I now have no decorations around the windows except the handle at the top. Resizing is done with Meta-Mouse2.
The two WMs I found most likely substitutes were pekwm and openbox. But pekwm-0.1.11 didn't seem to have AutoRaise which was a show-stopper. Openbox seemed so close to fluxbox it hardly seemed worth switching (though I could look at it more sometime); as for speed fluxbox feels plenty fast on my old box (500 MHz).
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