Yes, in i3 you can switch a container between tiled (the default), tabbed, and stacked layouts. I actually like i3's handling of two monitors a lot [0]; workspa

Yes, in i3 you can switch a container between tiled (the default), tabbed, and stacked layouts. I actually like i3's handling of two monitors a lot [0]; workspaces are global and can be created on either monitor. For me that's easy to understand and fits my work style (one workspace with email and IM on one monitor, multiple workspaces with terminals and web browsers on the other). My only complaint with i3 is how the concept of splitting and changing tiling orientation between horizontal and vertical are intertwined. [1] I think it would be much more intuitive to have two tiling layouts (horizontal and vertical), a single kind of split that is only responsible for splitting, and no separate concept of orientation. To help myself get used to i3, I wrote myself this small program for visualize the tree structure of my containers. [2] [0] http://i3-wm.org/docs/userguide.html#multi_monitor http://i3-wm.org/docs/userguide.html#multi_monitor [1] http://i3-wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_orientation_and_split_containers http://i3-wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_orientation_and_split_... [2] https://github.com/sciurus/i3tree https://github.com/sciurus/i3tree