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Or perahps I3!

Or even better, XMonad!

Only better if you are up for 500mb of dependencies and having to learn Haskell to configure your desktop.

Configuring XMonad is a very good reason to learn Haskell, among many others.

And apart from a little arcane syntax, you absolutely don't have to learn any real Haskell to configure xmonad.

No, but you have to learn a REALLY arcane syntax!

or better use DWM :P