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I like a main window taking the left 60% of the screen and the remainder for 2 aux windows stacked vertically.
I use Awesome WM. It was my first foray into the tiling WM world, and I am currently loving it. I have two monitors. I usually have whatever main task I'm working with on my main widescreen, and then a bunch of terminals with various programs (ncmpcpp, irssi, etc) on my old 17 inch monitor. Awesome is great because of its use of the keyboard and tag system. Also, it is named after one of Barney Stinson's catchphrases…
I use sawfish. It is very lightweight, configurable, supports plenty of keyboard shortcuts and generally stays out of my way. I have keyboard shortcuts for most simple operations (change workspace, change window, send to back, etc.) and use the mouse when that sort of thing makes sense. I try to stick to 'one task-type per workspace' which helps keep things somewhat organized (plus it keeps my browser in hiding while…
I started using it when it was the default WM for gnome, and had so many customizations that I couldn't switch away when metacity came out.
Things like windows7-ish tiling (I had it before windows 7, when someone using another WM could do it).
I like fvwm - http://fvwm.org/ - I can change the size of windows on all sides, and the width of the borders is easily configurable. (Everything else is as well, but those are the things I particularly like over other window managers I have seen.) I would like to try running Xmonad on a second monitor, and use that monitor for xterms primarily - I don't want my browser window-size to change with how many windows I ha…
I have a single config file that detects which host its running on and modifies fvwm's behavior accordingly. This way I can have the same configuration work well on the desktop and the netbook.
It works well on the netbook, too, as its very resource-friendly.
I have it set up with a 3x3 virtual desktop space and no edge resistance. The "Windows" key pops up the virtual desktop manager.
Also, I have it configured so that when I hit the "Menu" key or CTRL-Windows I get the root menu, so it's reasonably keyboard friendly. (e.g. CTRL-Windows,T gets me a terminal; CTRL-Windows,N,W gives a browser.)
Not that I use those, really, since I have F1 on the root window bound to "launch terminal", and F2 to "launch browser".
FVMW doesn't work as well as others out-of-the-box, but you can pretty much make it do anything if you tweak the config enough. But that's work, so you gotta wannit.
I really wish it was a compositing window manager, but it's not, and it doesn't seem likely to be.
I've used Fluxbox and Blackbox basically since I was in diapers, but I recently decided that it's really way past time to try a tiling WM, and settled on xmonad after initially trying awesome. I like it a lot so far; it's lightweight, flexible, and very easy to configure, and I'm surprised how little I miss dragging windows around (although I still float some frequently used applications, Chrome and Audacious primary…
Why do you float Chrome windows? Web browsers and terminals are the easiest applications to tile.
I use Awesome WM. It was my first foray into the tiling WM world, and I am currently loving it. I have two monitors. I usually have whatever main task I'm working with on my main widescreen, and then a bunch of terminals with various programs (ncmpcpp, irssi, etc) on my old 17 inch monitor. Awesome is great because of its use of the keyboard and tag system. Also, it is named after one of Barney Stinson's catchphrases…
Now that they kicked xcb out of cairo (which awesome needs) which resulted in awesome getting kicked out of the arch linux community repository I think I'll just switch to i3 like all of my buddies.
I prefer WMII in VirtualBox as development enviroment. http://wmii.suckless.org/
ratpoison, because it actually manages those pesky windows.