I am using fluxbox as my primary window manager on both my laptop and home desktop. If you want a non distractive environment to work with, I strongly suggest to take a look.
On the laptop, I had a problem to configure the backlight. It was always on 100%, fixed without the ability to change it. If you run on battery, then you need to lower the brightness of your display.
After Linux kernel v3.16, things got a lot easier and better for newest models of laptops that had problems with the backlight and brightness.
You can find a lot of blog/site & wiki pages that suggest to append something of the below to your grub menu entry:
video.use_native_backlight=0
video.use_native_backlight=1
acpi_backlight=vendor
or something similar.
Note
Thank you.
reading
man 5 fluxbox-keys
i found that there is
ArrangeWindows pattern / ArrangeWindowsVertical pattern / ArrangeWindowsHorizontal pattern
so i edited my
~/.fluxbox/keys
to auto-tile (vertical/horintal) with my super (window) key as shortcut
Mod4 h :arrangewindowshorizontal
Mod4 v :arrangewindowsvertical