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For me "get out of my way" means i don't wanna have to configure-reconfigure-rereconfigure it every week and i don't wanna have to learn a new language for that.

I don't wanna have to go through a "video" (hi nwm) to show me how it works.

I'm ok with a 5min first time setup and 5min reading the man page, then that's it.

Most tiling and "minimalistic" wms fail at that.

So i'm using KDE/XFCE/etc. Heck, KDE's kwin tiling mode is just fine.

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For what it's worth: I read on his blog that the original author of awesome-wm (j. danjou) stated in an interview that he used awesome with the default rc pretty much untouched (some people on the mailing list are heavily modifying it).

Moreover, awesome is "pluggable" into classic gnome 2.x

Ive tried countless times but i can't satisfy myself with defaults on awesomewm. always have to tweak it and it takes a while.

Incidently awesomewm configuration system is extremely powerful. But I don't wanna "waste" hours on that anymore (that is, all the wm config in general).

If KDE brings too many troubles (the config is dead easy but it has other quirks, like memory usage, bugs, etc), I might just go back to the trusty window maker. Simple, easy. Maybe the way it should always have been ;-)

For me, awesome was the first window manager that I liked without having to tweak much. I did eventually tweak little things, but that is a very slow process happening over a long period -- the default config works well enough for me.

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