While i agree that xmonad is a bit of a pain to configure the first time around (especially if you're not used to writing code in haskell) I find that you can u

While i agree that xmonad is a bit of a pain to configure the first time around (especially if you're not used to writing code in haskell) I find that you can use the mouse pretty extensively with xmonad. For example with this in my xmonad.hs: ((0,9), (\_ -> moveTo Next NonEmptyWS)) ((0,8), (\_ -> moveTo Prev NonEmptyWS)) I can move between work spaces with only my mouse (In this case with the extra 2 buttons on the left).