How to choose a modern lightweight composite Window Manager for Linux?

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After several years of using various GNU/Linux distributions with various DEs, I suddenly realized that in all cases the only standard program from all the typical DE bundle that I sometimes use is the file manager (Nautilus/Thunar/Dolphin/etc), and that grimacing, and for everything else I use third-party applications: for video - VLC, for music - DeaDBeeF, as a text editor - Sublime, browser - Chrome, plus a few other applications that are not part of any DE. I don't even need a taskbar - instead I prefer to use some third-party dock like AWN, and I don't need virtual desktops either.
Therefore, DE, with all the bunch of its own additional (in addition to pure GTK / Qt) libraries and applications [I] do not need, butI need a stupid Window Manager, which will simply draw titles to windows and allow them to be resized and dragged across my two monitors and ensure composition works for applications such as docks that require this, that's it . Yes, don't offer tiling WMs - somehow it's not mine.
At the same time, it is desirable that it looks nice enough (although what should it look like there at all? except perhaps only for window titles) and is actively supported, and not rotten in stagnation with the latest version that was released several years ago.
Please advise what to see. Thanks in advance.
UPDATE:Perhaps there are two additional (in addition to, in fact, window rendering) features that I would be glad to see - this is a global top menu for all applications (a la MacOS / Ubuntu) and a classic main menu (a la Windows 95) for launching applications, called by right-clicking on the desktop or by a button in the same top panel (well, or something else).

Answer 1

Modern and lightweight are mutually exclusive parameters :-) And without superfluous - fluxbox, blackbox. Windows and magic Alt-F2.

Answer 2

After several years

Then you should already know.
Install Debian, select "Standard system" during installation, then install windows, then whatever you want.

Answer 3

open box. I myself use tiled i3wm, windows can be "detach" mod + shift + space and drag-resize, or set "freedom" (floating) in the config

Answer 4

I myself have been using IceWM since the death of KDE (when quads came out). I recommend to try. It is configured in an elementary way (a text configuration file), there is nothing superfluous. Unnecessary borders can be turned off for windows, which saves screen space.

Answer 5

Please advise what to see.

Graphical environments in
Cinnamon distributions:
Linux Mint and its Cinnamon. Applicant essays

Answer 6

And you, most likely, would like to have a systray with icons somewhere ...
In general, knowing about the existence of xfce4-topmenu-plugin can greatly reduce the time both for searching and for dancing with a tambourine.