I searched the forum for "window manager" before I started this topic, but I didn't find any results that seemed relevant. I think I did find a topic on X.

I want to make a DE. On another site, I found a topic in which someone was asking for advice on DEs, since he or she wanted to develop a DE. The advice given to him or her was to start with a window manager first. Since my end goal is, in fact, a DE, in your opinion, should I disregard the advice this person gave, and actually start with a DE instead? And if so, are there any that you feel are more worthy of starting with? CDE, since it's a traditional DE based on Motif?

One of the main sites I've been referencing lately was the one that wisecracker linked to, and that I alluded to in my OP, but this site's spam-fighting policy prevented me from providing a link (which would have helped, since no one knows what site I was talking about without the link...) to it. And in cases like this, I think the benefit of being able to provide a link (despite how few posts I've submitted on this site so far) would far outweigh the benefits of this site's spam-fighting policy. The site wisecracker linked to explains that many wms have been forked from aewm, hence my desire to start with it.

Thank you, I will definitely check it out. The documentation for aewm is nothing to brag about.

Indeed, just tonight, I did order 4 books which appear to be in the same series from the late '80s through the early '90s from smile.amazon. Yes, you've definitely helped me, so thank you! I really appreciate it!

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Thank you, and that's an awesome site. I've been using that for the last week, downloading various WMs.

And about your point where you talk about code getting broken, this article talks about that briefly: Linux has "only 10 great apps" according to Gnome Creator - gHacks Tech News

Despite that, I'm undeterred. Thanks again for your support!