I've been experimenting with using wmii as my window manager in Ubuntu Karmic, without discarding all of the Gnome desktop features.

• http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2009/01/you-got-your-windowmaker-in-my-peanut.html

A: Because they don't match the current tag. I wrote a script to tag all new windows with the current view.

#!/usr/bin/env python
 
import os
import sys
 
p = os.popen("wmiir read /event")
while True:
    event = p.readline()
    if event.startswith("CreateClient"):
        client = event.split(" ", 1)[1].strip()
        os.system("wmiir xwrite /client/%s/tags $(wmiir read /tag/sel/ctl | head -n1)" % client)