You could. But my Xmonad config looks like this: import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Gnome main = xmonad gnomeConfig { modMask = mod4Mas

You could. But my Xmonad config looks like this: import XMonad import XMonad.Config.Gnome main = xmonad gnomeConfig { modMask = mod4Mask } So you can do it without learning a bunch of Haskell. If you plan on configuring it to all hell then it would be difficult without learning a little Haskell syntax, but you certainly shouldn't need to learn Haskell proper.