Window Managers

Gnome has become too weird so I don't like using it.

KDE is too heavy and I don't like it either.

I like eye candy: rotating cube, wobbly windows, etc.

So you can use xfce4.

xfce

keyboard shortcuts

application menu - window manager - set the windows key to open

using kwin eye candy

cp ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml.orig
cp /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml
vi ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml

on line 12 replace xfwm4 with kwin

test by running

kwin --replace

in a box. This may take a little while, but is a good test. If it works, log out then use a standard terminal to delete stuff in ~/.cache/sessions before rebooting the machine (otherwise you may not see any window borders after rebooting.

NB After doing this, you will have to use the kde-system-settings to change settings!