Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
Or simply try a better window manager like Sawfish, IceWM, WindowMaker! ;)
As I said in the very beginning, I was indeed using Sawfish but it had a very erratic behavior. Often Alt-Tabbing would cycle rapidly through all windows and return to the one I started with. Keyboard shortcuts were executed but were also sent to the window that had focus which really made working in any text editor a pain. It also caused Xscreensaver to always reject the password for the first time :(
AFA IceWM and WMaker are concerned, I saw them on others machines but either they didn't look good or didn't have some functionality.