The whole suckless organization is an absolutely fantastic entity. I'm not even sure who they are (over the course of nearly 20 years I've stumbled across most

The whole suckless organization is an absolutely fantastic entity. I'm not even sure who they are (over the course of nearly 20 years I've stumbled across most members of the major -nix subset-communities), but suckless's dedication to the UNIX "do one thing and do it right" ideal is so steadfast it blows my mind. Anyways, yeah, dmenu and dwm just got it right. (Though I must admit I flirt with wmii these days). Every -nix'er owes it to him/herself to put 'exec dwm' into their .xinitrc for a few months. This analogy won't do it justice - but - the way your mind expands shifting over is comparable to the development mentality shift one gets when moving from procedural C to LISP or Smalltalk.