I'm liking xfce4 on Ubuntu. I'd looked at xfce before and not been too impressed. It was pretty good, but not good or easy enough to use. So I'd stayed with gnome.
For slow machines, I've used either fvwm or icewm. There are other lightweight window managers, but I liked those two.
At work, I use gnome on my primary desktop (but I may change that to xfce4, actually), and icewm on another desktop on which I have a vnc server. I run eclipse and tomcat on my primary desktop, and browsers, IRC and mail clients on the remote desktop.
I think I'm about ready to switch to xfce, actually. I tested that out on my laptop running gnome, with vnc running xfce. I had some minor problems getting xfce working under VNC until I saw a post on "xfce4 on vnc" on ubuntuforums.
Tried it out. It works on the laptop (both primary and vncserver running on the same box. That should be perfect for work.
#!/bin/sh
unset SESSION_MANAGER
startxfce4 &
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