Take the tour ×  I require Compiz for organizational reasons; I
make heavy use of its window sorting features. But I like light-
weight environments so that I can give as much of my system's
resources to the applications as possible.  Is there a DE that
plays nice with Compiz, but is still very light?  share|improve
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accepted  I'm running Compiz standalone right now. Works just
fine. I followed the instructions on the Arch Linux Compiz wiki
page; see especially the section As a Standalone Window Manager.
share|improve this answer Cairo-Dock's working on a dock+compiz
stand-alone too: glx-dock.org/bg_topic.php?t=5562 –  Benjamin
Dec 24 '11 at 0:45 add comment  Do you actually require a DE at
all? I've run Compiz without one before, there's no real reason
it would require one, and that's about as light-weight as you
can get  share|improve this answer Hmm... I never thought about
that. Just compiz and a dock would be perfectly adequate for me!
edit: well,