i3!

Then you will love i3. Watch the screencast http://i3wm.org/screenshots/,
read the User’s Guide and install i3 http://i3wm.org/downloads/!
âž¡ Download the latest version 4.13 http://i3wm.org/downloads
i3 is a tiling window manager http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager,
completely written from scratch. The target platforms are GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems, our code is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS under the BSD license. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers. Based upon the experiences we made when wanting to hack/fix wmii, we agreed upon the following goals for i3:

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