This thread has been split from its parent:
http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=7296
...as conversation was moving away from discussing OpenBSD window managers & more towards comparisons to Linux.
barti, I suspect you are attempting to understand the different culture found in the *BSD world as opposed to what you saw in the Linux world, & you are trying to put all the inconsistencies together. You would be doing yourself a greater favor if you would try to organize your thoughts more carefully into a more discernible narrative before posting.
It would also help your readers try to understand what is most fundamentally important to you at this time.