How do you use your tiling window managers?

Question

I've been fiddling around with tiling window managers on and off for a while (currently off, in favor of the old staple openbox), and I've tried a few of them. I've became quite proficient in wmii and ratpoison, so I definitely understand the appeal.

What I did notice is that most screenshots where people show off their tiling setups (blogs, the arch forum etc.) show a rather bland usage scenario. Maybe it's because people can't show their work desktops or that forums generally tend to favor a younger crowd, but you mostly see people editing their wm configuration and the ubiquitous IRC session. Which reminds me a lot of the way I used fvwm in 1995...

So I'd be interested to know how you superusers work in dwm/wmii/musca/awesome/xmonad etc.. What's usually on your screen, how do you organize your work, how do you integrate existing multiple-window applications (tabbed web browsers, emacs, vim etc.)?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if I count as superuser. However I mainly use two window applications, some terminal and a browser. The termail(s) run screen sessions (local and remote computers). My local session consists of email client, editor, shell etc. The browser is located at another virtual working space. So I have one big space for all shells and one for the browser. If I need other applications, I use another virtual space and open them there.