old post but i figured what i did was relevant

so i liked tiling wms as everything was in place, but i liked floating wms as well as they allowed you to freely move things around and have more windows visible at once.

so i wrote a script using wmutils that arranged windows into different tiled layouts, and had it run when a window was opened, with different layouts and the ability to save layouts and not have them overwritten. the script arranges windows into a tiled position, but lets you move them around and resize them as if they were floating, allowing for overlap.