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Over the past fortnight I’ve re-installed Arch on a few boxes, mainly because my new workstation arrived and it prompted a clean out. In an urge to get going ASAP I installed the gnome & gnome-extra packages and was really impressed with the new Gnome Shell.
As I have mentioned before, xmonad on vanilla X has been my Window Manager of choice for some 4 years now. I’m not going to go into the details of why, but you can see this post if you’re interested.
However, being the keyboard & hotkey freak I am I’ve found it a little frustrating using the Shell, not to mention the damn GUI that is the only way to configure hotkeys, give me a text files any day. So, how am I going to resolve these frustrations?
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