I'm use Windows so AutoHotKey is my window manager: https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/79338-simple-window-posit...
Usually my main window is an IDE and it takes 50% of the center, and I'll have miscellaneous windows off to the left and right peeking out from behind it. Creating shortcuts to specific programs (also to minimize/maximize/close them) is also helpful as mousing to the taskbar is just not efficient.