I tried i3wm, and I really wanted to like it. It's got the simplest configuration I've seen in a tiling window manager and it seemed very low maintenance. Unfo

I tried i3wm, and I really wanted to like it. It's got the simplest configuration I've seen in a tiling window manager and it seemed very low maintenance. Unfortunately, it's got some bugs, at least in the version packaged with Debian Wheezy, which ended up being a deal-breaker for me. One of the bugs is that when a container is vertically split, true transparency (with xcompmgr) gets messed up and you see a bunch of garbage in the background of the client. I've also used AwesomeWM and xmonad, but both were too difficult to configure, especially because I don't know Haskell or Lua and I didn't want to learn a new language just to configure my wm, especially because I wouldn't use the languages for other purposes, and so I'd promptly forget the syntax and would have to re-learn it every time I wanted to change something in my wm. I ended up switching to Openbox, and I'm still trying to decide whether it is for me.