I do exactly the same thing. It works really great for me. An additional plus if you go this route is the tagging feature of tiling window managers. This allows

I do exactly the same thing. It works really great for me. An additional plus if you go this route is the tagging feature of tiling window managers. This allows you to have multiple views. I use for example one e-mail/web view, one development view (vim in multiple consoles), one server view (consoles connected to various remote systems) one Matlab view and of course one music player view.