I was surprised to find that no one else has recommended dwm[1], which is what Xmonad (and others) are based on[2]. It's tiling, keyboard-driven, small and lig

I was surprised to find that no one else has recommended dwm[1], which is what Xmonad (and others) are based on[2]. It's tiling, keyboard-driven, small and lightweight. I've been using it for years now. It's a little hairy to start with, but I love it. Instead of workspaces it uses "tags" which you can treat just like workspaces, but you can also combine, on-the-fly, to form a mashup of different tasks. For example, sometimes I want my editor & web browser next to each other, when I'm looking something up, but most of the time I just want to focus on the code. [1]: http://dwm.suckless.org/ http://dwm.suckless.org/ [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwm