I knew why, but I've actually had much better luck with dwm (http://dwm.suckless.org/ http://dwm.suckless.org/) * . The automatically-tiled / multiple desktops

I knew why, but I've actually had much better luck with dwm (http://dwm.suckless.org/ http://dwm.suckless.org/) * . The automatically-tiled / multiple desktops interface style works verrry well with a keyboard-centric usage style, but also more gracefully accommodates programs that expect a more conventional UI - ratpoison just seems to give up. (I used ratpoison exclusively for probably three or four years.) * Other people have also had good experience with XMonad (http://xmonad.org/ http://xmonad.org/) or awesome (http://awesome.naquadah.org/ http://awesome.naquadah.org/), though the former requires Haskell (I got burned by GHC's portability issues, and requiring GHC for a window manager strikes me as a bit silly), and awesome strikes me as a bit dodgy.