I like the idea of tiled window managers. In the past I've tried the Suckless solution as well as others, but the learning curve was more than I felt like dealing with or the default key combinations messed with apps like Blender etc. I recently saw a review of Awesome WM and decided to give it a shot. Out of the box it is great. Once you learn it keyboard combinations, most activities work well. However it seems to not like my Java Swing window used in the Galaxynet space mining game project.
Also I haven't been able to get it to run some of the start up commands and apps I've tried to specify. So sadly, at best I'll have to use it 3/4 of the time.
Also it would be nice to be able to autohide the main task bar, but so far the solutions I've tried for that are kind of buggy and weird, and I haven't been able to get their scripts to run at start up.
I'll probably mess with it more in the future but will likely use Plasma for the most part.
