| Yup, been there too, but I simply can't go back to a non-tiling WM after being spoiled with tiling ones. If you want to give it a shot, there's a guide on using Awesome with Gnome [0], and the last time I tried it worked just fine. Though, awesome replaces both mutter (Gnome's WM) and the Gnome Shell itself, so you won't have Gnome's panel etc anymore. I wanted a nicer integration between a DE and a WM, and the two nicest options by far have been Xfce and LXQt for me. LXQt makes it trivial to use your own WM (they use Openbox by default) since they have an option for it in their Preferences [1]. With Xfce however it's a bit more involved [2], since Xfce is more tightly coupled with Xfwm and using a custom WM is not as easy as LXQt makes it. That said, I'm using Xfce + bspwm for now (as opposed to LXQt + bspwm) mainly because Xfce's display and power manager are more matured than LXQt's. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20160726160922/https://awesomewm... [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXQt#Replace_Openbox [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce#Default_window_man... |