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XMonad folks... Just in case anyone wants feedback about why people may or may not choose to use XMonad, I thought I'd give some.
I'm moving away from XMonad and back to the window manager I keep coming back to: Fvwm. This isn't because I hate XMonad, XMonad is cool. But I miss my eye-candy, and I miss the ability to move and resize floating windows with just the mouse (rather than mouse+key). I remember seeing a post here saying that there were two models for interacting with a window manager: (1) keyboard alone and (2) mouse and keyboard. But there's also mouse-alone. Sometimes one wishes to have a hand free, to drink a cuppa, eat a sandwich, whatever. Or one is using a laptop where "mouse" (touchpad) use requres two hands, one for the touchpad and the other for the buttons. XMonad doesn't support that.
Then I found that it was easier to write a tiling module for Fvwm than to write eye-candy for XMonad. Part of that is because I'm familiar with Perl and I haven't (yet) learned enough about Haskell. Fvwm's modular design plus its Perl bindings enabled me to have somewhere to start, while I didn't know where to start with XMonad. Also, altering the decorations of XMonad seems to be a more daunting, low-level task than adding tiling behaviour to Fvwm. After beavering away for a few weeks, I've got my Fvwm tiling module working well enough, and so I no longer need to use XMonad.
Thanks for the feedback! -- Don