xfce without xfwm?

[wolfgang]

In an older episode (Wednesday 13 November 2002 20:15), Paul Kent Anderson 
wrote:
> I'm using IBM's xfce distribution (3.8.11) for AIX, and am in a
> situation where I can't use xfwm, but would still like to use xfce.

you can start the program xfce (which is the xfce panel) in any window 
manager, for example by running
	xfce &
in an xterm or via autostart / (.xinitrc?! /)  session management.

so i would suggest that you start the window manager you want to start and 
afterwards run xfce.

hope this helps.

regards,
wolfgang