I use i3 on Arch with a custom dmenu (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dmenu https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dmenu) for opening GUI applications, along

I use i3 on Arch with a custom dmenu (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dmenu https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dmenu) for opening GUI applications, along with tmux for terminal applications like OP. I also use the included i3bar (http://i3wm.org/i3bar/ http://i3wm.org/i3bar/). i3 documentation is so good it's a joy to configure. I only have few tools, but it gets me wherever I need to go.