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Interestingly, i3wm is designed as a successor to wmii and explicitly decided to avoid the Plan 9 aspect. [1]

Does someone have examples of cool things you can do in wmii thanks to this?

[1] Google Tech Talk about i3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnYN2CTb1hM (this question at 15:30)

I'm really surprised that he left out i3wm. It's lightweight and the tiling placement is surprisingly intuitive and simple.

Here's the Google Talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnYN2CTb1hM

⬐ sliverstorm

i3wm is the most difficult to get used to, from what I've seen. As always, more configuration (in this case of window layout) makes for steeper learning curves.

⬐ stormbrew

On the contrary i3 is the only one I've started using and stuck with. The configuration is simple, the commands not horribly difficult to use or understand, and it's pretty damn good at dealing with multimon, even dealing with randr display names natively.

⬐ hkhanna

I tried i3wm, and I really wanted to like it. It's got the simplest configuration I've seen in a tiling window manager and it seemed very low maintenance.

Unfortunately, it's got some bugs, at least in the version packaged with Debian Wheezy, which ended up being a deal-breaker for me. One of the bugs is that when a container is vertically split, true transparency (with xcompmgr) gets messed up and you see a bunch of garbage in the background of the client.

I've also used AwesomeWM and xmonad, but both were too difficult to configure, especially because I don't know Haskell or Lua and I didn't want to learn a new language just to configure my wm, especially because I wouldn't use the languages for other purposes, and so I'd promptly forget the syntax and would have to re-learn it every time I wanted to change something in my wm.

I ended up switching to Openbox, and I'm still trying to decide whether it is for me.