[Lug-nuts] Tiling Windows Managers

Hi Folks,

Once again I seek your experience and advice. I want a tiling window manager, and I have relatively few features: I'd like to be able to

* open an arbitrary number of "panes" and run something in them. Maybe some predefined layouts. * cycle the panes * drag one pane on top of another and have that be interpreted as a pane swap. * resize panes by dragging the boundaries.

I have tried i3 and xmonad and I got no-f******-where with them. It is not clear to me why they didn't work, but I don't thing I want to spend the effort to find out, unless somebody has a very strong endorsement for either of them.

Anybody got any war stories about this that end with a victory?

Thanks for the help,