Icons are crap, because no existing window manager manages them at all well. Configurability is crap, because it takes up so much time and can never truly compensate for using the wrong design.
Appearance is important.
Armed with these certainties, therefore, I embarked upon a spiritualistic quest to write the perfect window manager. It looks like this , and you can get it here . The distribution is a gzipped tar file of sources only. If you want to put soothing colored pixmaps into the window frame background, then you'll also need the Xpm library. This distribution is the third release of wm2, which differs in some ways from the second release.