Sorry, yes, I understood that. But since you mentioned dwm and awesome in the same breath and then went on to complain about configuration headaches I thought

Sorry, yes, I understood that. But since you mentioned dwm and awesome in the same breath and then went on to complain about configuration headaches I thought it might be worthwhile to point out that dwm actually doesn't suffer from the configuration headaches that apparently come with awesome + multiple monitors. But then, dwm has its own set of other limitations of course (quite a lot of them, in fact) - everything's a tradeoff.