While Gnome on Lucid Lynx is pretty and Gnome has a bunch of features that make window management a bit nicer than before (like Win-w,e,s,n,m) I immediately longed for a decent tiling manager. So, within ten minutes and without further regret: Get the latest xmonad packages Unlike Karmic, Lucid repositories have the latest version of [...]

Xmonad is a tiling window manager that wastes neither time nor screen real estate. It does away with decorations, giving windows the space they need, but no more. The learning curve is a steep eight commands or so. This tutorial should get you up to speed quickly with Xmonad on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. You [...]