Not to highjack the question, but have you (or anybody on Unix) tried using any tiling window managers? They seem to be particularly good when one maximized win

Not to highjack the question, but have you (or anybody on Unix) tried using any tiling window managers? They seem to be particularly good when one maximized window becomes too much. * dwm - http://www.suckless.org/wiki/dwm * XMonad - http://xmonad.org/ * wmii - http://www.suckless.org/wiki/wmii I prefer dwm, but they each have advantages -- dwm is very minimal and written in clean C, XMonad is written in Haskell, and wmii is turned inside-out, so to speak: it has an internal filesystem and hook-based architecture (like plan9), so you can script it in any language. For example, here's _why talking about extending it in Ruby: http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/aFewWmii3Hacks.html http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/aFewWmii3Hacks.html