I liked metacity in 214X-top3 but Xface panel seems big. I tried some combinations, finally found one that meet my requirements metacity with lxpanel.
lxpanel 0.5.5 takes almost same resources than metacity (look in htop)
In the attached picture you can see lxpanel in action, supports transparency even in tray icon and plugins, also has nice plugins (in the picture form left to right: volume control, Network Status, Clock, CPU Monitor), a taskbar, desktop pager, launcher and Menu.
It´s very fast and includes a control Panel. Even the Dropbear Server icons is displayed correctly.
Note 1: lxpanel crashed when I tried to change its position and JWM was active, no problems found with metacity.
Note2: upnorth, In my opinion the code should be modified to take advantage of PATH environment variable:
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if [ "´which tint2´" != "" ]; then
tint2 &
clarf