[cl289]

Always a little confused by what 'tiling' is. On gnome I use 'untiled'/overlapping windows, and with SYS-right/left/up/down, ALT-tab, ALT-`, ALT-ESC, etc. shift windows around on gnome. That's it, plus quarter-tiling and definable keyboard combinations?

What would be really useful is a workspace organizer that given a keyboard combination automatically opened a number of applications in preset locations (on a new workspace); i.e. set up a work environment for a specific task. Is that possible with a tiling manager?

[undersuit]

StumpWM definitely has the ability to open a number of applications in preset locations, they call it 'Groups'. I'm sure it isn't a novel feature and you'll find the same ability in a more common, less Lispy tiling window manager like Ratpoison, i3, or Awesome.

[vidarh]

i3 at least allows this by saving layouts and restoring them. See[1]. It's not entirely painless, as there's no trivial uniform way of associating an application with a window, so you need to figure out what names etc. a given app uses for its windows and specify how i3 should map windows being opened to a given placeholder, but once you've defined it, it works fine.

[1] https://i3wm.org/docs/layout-saving.html