My alternative would be bspwm, the binary space partitioning wm. I like bspwm's approach to keyboard shortcuts: don't do them. Have an external socket through

My alternative would be bspwm, the binary space partitioning wm. I like bspwm's approach to keyboard shortcuts: don't do them. Have an external socket through which external applications have complete control over window-manager tasks, and use an external hot-key manager (sxhkd, by the auther of bspwm) to send commands to it to handle windows.