Here's an opinion that is likely to be controversial: I like Gnome Shell for exactly the same reason. To be fair, it's something like 7 years since I used it,

Here's an opinion that is likely to be controversial: I like Gnome Shell for exactly the same reason. To be fair, it's something like 7 years since I used it, so maybe things have changed a lot. I ended up abandoning it because I don't like Gnome in general (I want something significantly more light weight). But I loved the idea that I could completely change the way my window manager worked by writing a surprisingly small amount of JS. Not only that, but it had (I hope still has) hooks into mutter, so you could do anything you want to the compositter as well. For example, one of the things I did was to have windows that zoomed the contents when I resized them rather than increasing the size of area in the window -- I did it because I have terrible vision and virtually every time I want a bigger window it's because I want it magnified. I just noticed Xlambda which was featured very recently on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20316920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20316920 I wonder if there is compositor I could talk to as well... compton doesn't do the kinds of things I want to do...