Openbox alternative with tiling builtin?

Question

Hello, I am using LXDE right now until I can switch over to a qt-desktop (once it's stable), and I'd like to find another floating window manager that can do tiling. Particularly, I want to be able to set a keybinding to have windows move to take up the left/right half of the screen and possibly quarters of the screen. I'm aware that there are many tiling wms out there, but I was hoping for a floating wm that works like openbox, but has that tiling ability built into it. My first attempt was pekwm, but unless I missed something, it couldn't do tiling like I wanted. I do like the look of it much more than openbox though. I've also heard that openbox has a plugin thing to get tiling, but I'd rather experiment with an alternative wm.

Answer 1

If you don't need continuous tiling, I heartily recommend FVWM because it gives you a lot of freedom in your configuration. I have this functionality bound to drag gestures initiated by the right mouse button on the titlebar.
Drag left to fill the left half of the screen.
Drag up and left to fill the top left quarter of the screen.
Drag left, then up to fill the first 1/8 of the screen (1/4 width, 1/2 height)
Drag up, then left to fill the second 1/8 of the screen.
Drag left, then right, to fill the left 3/4 of the screen
and so on.
You can bind whatever to whatever, including keychains and buttons that do dozens of different things depending on mouse button and modifiers keys used; you can also put buttons wherever you want and aren't restricted to traditional panels or window borders. FVWM is a lot more powerful than Openbox, can mimic it so well you won't notice the difference if that's all you want, and still plays in the same weight class.
The configuration syntax isn't quite as straightforward though, and outside tool to add functionality to window managers didn't always behave as nicely for me.