On that note, I've just started using ion3 (http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/ http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/), which is a similarly-focused tiling, keyboar

On that note, I've just started using ion3 (http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/ http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/), which is a similarly-focused tiling, keyboard-friendly window manager. I'm still unsure about how useful it is on my laptop, but at work where I have huge monitors, it's great. I never move my windows anyway, so there's no point in spending time aligning them, or wasting the space between them. It is still awkward for certain applications, though.