I'm not familiar with notion or ion3, but I've used all of the other tilling managers listed. I really like AwesomeWM as a starting point because it comes sanel

I'm not familiar with notion or ion3, but I've used all of the other tilling managers listed. I really like AwesomeWM as a starting point because it comes sanely configured, and does not rely on haskell like Xmonad. Awesome is configured via Lua scripts, Lua might not be the most popular language but it's easier to pick up than Haskell and has a smaller dependence base. Besides notion/ion3, which I am not familiar with, all these tilling managers are automatic. You select a layout directive like - place all windows horizontally, - place all windows in a grid, - place one window filling 2/3rd the screen and the rest stacked in the remaining 1/3rd There are other tilling wm's like i3, wmii, bspwm, and herbstluftwm which are manual tilling managers. i3 and wmii are probably the best ones to start with, but herbstluftwm is my favorite. With manual tillers you typically split the workspace into multiple frames and windows are automatically arranged in those frames. Here is an impressive gif of bspwm, a manual tilling window manager [0], and here is the reddit thread where the creater talks about his configurations [1] [0] http://paste.unixhub.net/index.php/NlKe/ http://paste.unixhub.net/index.php/NlKe/ [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1m0ea1/arch_bspwm_why_bspwm_watch_this_screencast_and/ http://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1m0ea1/arch_bspwm_...