Window Manager preference?

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Alright people, what window manager do you use? I know that emerald + compiz-fusion are the current fad because of all their fancy eye-candy, but how about the WMs that really offer productivity enhancements? There're heavyweight window managers to the lightweight to the extremely lightweight. What do you prefer, and why? To me, Linux is all about customization and personalization. I'm a big fan of commandline programs over GUI apps, although I'm often using a programming IDE as well. I've tried many window managers and entire desktop environments. I've gone from plain-old GNOME + Metacity, then moving to the fancy emerald + compiz-fusion duo. Although I still like the eyecandy, I've settled on a tiling window manager called awesome ( http://awesome.naquadah.org/ ). It's slim, lightweight and totally customizable with plenty of keyboard shortcuts. For me it's perfect and comes with a much less memory footprint than the GNOME or KDE monsters. So what does myLot use to manage their windows, and how? For those who don't know... If you're using compiz-fusion then your window manager would be emerald. If you're using plain-old GNOME, your window manager is metacity. And for the KDE users, kwin would be yours.