Want to try tiling WM. Need suggestions.

Hi there!
I'm sort of a DE/WM hopper, I started with Gnome2, then moved to OpenBox (really really liked it!) then wanted to move back to Gnome, but Gnome3 was out and I didn't like it, so now I'm on XFCE.
As you see, all my WMs/DEs were non-tiling (called floating WM?) WM's.
I learned that tiling wm saves a lot of time by eliminating the use of mouse, and introducing the use of keyboard shortcuts and really speeds up the working process, especially if you are a developer (and I am).
So I need a recommendation for tiling WM that meets the following criteria:
1. I do like to dig in configuration files, but on the other hand sometimes I want things just to work. Hence I need a tiling WM that works out of the box, but gives me the option to modify/edit/make it better/theme is it/whatever in the future (just to clear, not a tiling wm that Ill have to edit config files, compile, recompile to simply make it work on the first run).
2. Something with an easy configuration (I know C, Lua, can edit XML files if needed). I don't want to learn new programming/scripting languages like perl/python/whatever to be able to customize my WM.
3. A WM that can handle dual screen pretty well (I work 99% of the time on my laptop and when I code I connect second monitor).
That's more or less what I'm looking for!
Thanks in advance!

Dude, you have described i3. Try it, it made me switch from openbox and I used openbox for years.
I develop on a laptop and use a second monitor. i3 is developed with multi monitor support in mind.
Last edited by ArchArael (2011-12-01 13:36:56)

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