Just because you can does not mean you should. You are responsible to arrange your workspaces in a usable manner yourself. I personally make use of i3's (also a

Just because you can does not mean you should. You are responsible to arrange your workspaces in a usable manner yourself. I personally make use of i3's (also a tiling WM) tabbed mode where I can make a stack of windows occupy the same area with a list of windows above it, much like tabs in a web browser. Tabbed mode is useful for when I open a bunch of programs that I don't want to close, but don't need to see all at the same time either.