I enjoy using xmonad too. It puts you in a very different workflow. Also don't miss the great list of people's config files: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmon

I enjoy using xmonad too. It puts you in a very different workflow. Also don't miss the great list of people's config files: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive I ended up adopting this one almost without modification: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive/Thomas_ten_Cate's_xmonad.hs http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive/Thomas_... (warning, for Dvorak keyboard layout)