Did you try Amethyst: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst ? It's Tiling WM modeled after xmonad for OSX. Among other things it

Did you try Amethyst: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst ? It's Tiling WM modeled after xmonad for OSX. Among other things it brings better keyboard support to spaces. I have keyboard shortcut for "move to n-th space", "move focused window to n-th/left/right space". And since you mentioned maximizing - since it's modeled after xmonad (tiling WM) every window is maximized when opened (or splitted with current focused windows, depening on your layout).