using the very nice i3 window manager and asked something today on the irc channel, found that you can have container moving by copying /etc/X11/i3/config to ~/.i3/config and changing the lines so that
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bindsym Mod1+Left wch
bindsym Mod1+Down wcj
bindsym Mod1+Up wck
bindsym Mod1+Right wcl
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