Customizing Gnome Shell in 11.10

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Published on 2011-11-16T11:21:22Z Indexed on 2012/06/20 3:24 UTC
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Since Unity on my old MBP is not that snappy, I really want to change my GUI to Gnome Shell. However, I've really been struggeling with the customization of Gnome Shell. Can you help me with the following:

Is is possible to have the dock on the screen all the time?
Can I enable 'hot corners' for features like 'scaling' in compiz?
Is there a ccsm-like GUI configuration tool?
Can I enable wobbly windows in Gnome Shell?
How do I change the shortcut for the WIN-KEY to start this 'Gnome-Mission-Control' (by that I mean this thing u see when going to the top left corner).

Thank you.

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