[michaelcampbell]

I went on a wm hunt in the early/mid 90's as well on my (company provided) SPARCStation. I went through all I could find and compile, but I landed on either fvwm or twm; the memory escapes me. I remember an interesting one ("piewm"?) that had its menus originate radially like pie-slices instead of a dropdown to the right; the theory being that you would have to move your mouse less to get to any given option.

I honestly don't understand the OP's hatred of fvwm, but people like different things.