I still use sawfish and I hope it never ever goes away. I love it. Here's a great example of why I love it.

I hate the mouse, so I wanted to have an equivalent of xterm's ctrl-ins (clipboard paste) in every window. mmc on irc.freenode.net's #sawfish channel was kind enough to whip this up for me:

(require 'sawfish.wm.util.selection)
(define (send-string-to-window s w)
  (let ((i 0))
    (while (< i (length s))
           (let* ((ch (substring s i (setq i (1+ i))))
                  (e (cond ((equal ch "\n") "RET")
                           (t ch))))
             (synthesize-event e w)))))
(defun send-selection (window)
  (interactive "%W")
  (send-string-to-window
    (x-get-selection 'PRIMARY) window))

Just put that in ~/.sawfish/rc (or ~/.sawfishrc if you already have one,) restart sawfish and edit your bindings. You'll see a new action called send-selection that you can bind to whatever key you want. I chose ctrl-; because it seemed unlikely that any app would use that binding already.

While it's something that I'd personally never use, there's some pretty kick-ass eye-candy in development over at RedHat. The movies are pretty impressive.

Another utility that I assume everyone knows about is Xclip. Xclip provides a command line (think std in/out) interface to the X11 clipboard. It's amazingly handy and works over X11 forwarding SSH. There are even Debian packages, so stop reading and go get it!

Glenn pointed out that if you add the '-tn xterm' argument to ATerm it changes the TERM variable to 'xterm' when then allows one to use the kickass XtermControl.

I haven't had a chance to try these out, but I'm quite excited to finally be able to run 2.6 on my workstation. I never got around to trying the minion.de patches due to time constraints.