Looking to conserve desktop real estate? Looking to increase your productivity? Want a light weight window manager that doesn't bog your system down? Try wmii, a powerful tiling window manager that delivers.

In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.

What good is having a large display if you're constantly rearranging windows to fit them on the screen? I got tired of try to fit a web browser with other smaller windows and decided to try xmonad, a tiling window manager that could do this for me.

I've been interested in using a tiling window manager for some time. Although I have had dwm, awesome and xmonad installed on my laptop, I've never spent more than a couple of hours on them.

You probably already know that a tiling window manager is one of the alternatives often provided by distributions alongside the standard Gnome or KDE Plasma desktops.

This post describes how to install and use xmonad, its keyboard shortcuts, basic terminology involved with tiling window managers. And a little bit info on other available tiling window managers.

"Over the weekend, I got to install the stumpwm window manager on SBCL, and its absolutely brilliant. A tiling, fully keyboard controlled extensible window manager..."

"Recently I switched from GNOME to Stumpwm (wiki), which means that I jumped out of a desktop environment to a simple window manager. So far, I'm very satisfied with such a change and never looked back. Stumpwm, as its website says, 'is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp'. This definition summarizes the reasons why Stumpwm is so suitable for me..." --

Window Maker is a window manager that, while having elements of a desktop environment, does keep very strongly to the principles of a basic, light weight window manager. It has an extremely simple, mouse driven interface and in some ways operates in the old NextStep blueprint of functionality.