You should note that spectrwm is keyboard driven. Not the programs you add, just spectrwm. If you like using the keyboard as much as the mouse or dont even want to use a mouse at all, it will work for you. But you do have to learn to use it,but that's not hard.
Chris Bennett and just use startx to get fvwm when you first install. It's in base install and the pure console sucks.
