Under Linux, the best window manager I ever used was ion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_%28window_manager%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_%28window_mana

Under Linux, the best window manager I ever used was ion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_%28window_manager%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_%28window_manager%29 It was like emacs turned into a window manager. It cut my mousing down by at least an order of magnitude. On OS X, a simple free app, ShiftIt, provides a similar experience: http://code.google.com/p/shiftit/ http://code.google.com/p/shiftit/ It lets you quickly move and resize windows into quartiles and halves with a few keystrokes. At the console, I log my activity to a database and then data-mine my console history to discover which tasks have become repetitive; then I replace them with a shell script. Blog post with source code here: http://matt.might.net/articles/console-hacks-exploiting-frequency/ http://matt.might.net/articles/console-hacks-exploiting-freq...