Here is my awesomewm setup.
It's built around floating windows.
Tiling features are intentionally stripped away.
Tiling is done manually through rules.
There's also no titlebars at all.
Instead there's right clicking the taskbar.
I make heavy use of the widgets and libraries that I wrote in "madwidgets".
You should be able to use madwidgets in other setups too, if you copy the whole thing.
I make heavy use of Rofi in my workflow. Since it's easy to show list results of text or get input for commands. It's easy to create .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications to make scripts visible.
To use, clone this in ~/.config
Rename the dir to "awesome".
Restart awesome.
Programs to start/call when awesome starts
Keyboard and mouse bindings
My menupanel (madwidget) setup
Naughty notifications setup
Window rules, how and where programs get displayed
Where the screen and panel get built
Some custom theming rules
Utilities and functions
Client signals
Holds some global variables
dash
numlockx
xset
setxkbmap
systemctl
pavucontrol
spectacle
playerctl
rofi
i3lock
firefox-developer-edition
some scripts
geany
osmo
alacritty
clipton
tilix
killall
echo
cat
sponge
onboard
btop
nethogs
ip
sed
speedcrunch
awk
sensors
free
cat
mpstat
sleep
sed
grep
pamixer
pkill
espeak
Win + Backspace
Toggle maximize
Win + Shift + Backspace
Toggle fullscreen
Win + Numpad number
Snap to the region represented by the numpad
Win + \
Move to other monitor
Win + Mouse wheel
Resize at center
ScrLk
Toggle Util Screen terminal
(Same is achieved by ctrl + Delete when the pointer is at the top of the screen)
Middle click on bottom left icon
Lock screen
Win + Spacebar
Open Rofi
Win + `
Open the main menupanel
Ctrl + `
Open the clipboard manager
Right click on tag
Move client to that tag
Alt + Tab
Show Rofi in altab mode
Right click tasklist item
Show a menupanel with actions on that client
Click on sysmonitors
Open btop
Open sensors
Open nethogs
Click on volume control
Open pavucontrol
Click on date
Open the osmo calendar
Alt + F4
Close client
Double tap the mouse DPI button
Close client under cursor
To do this, bind Win + Delete to the DPI button
That's what I do at least, and it's very efficient
PrtSc
Open Spectacle to take a region screenshot
Using Escape to cancel this shows more screenshot options
There's a simple log system that saves information to ~/.awm_log
It automatically saves "critical" notifications to it.
Other information can be added manually with the add_to_log function.
If your mouse has topside buttons, you can use them for virtual desktop changing.