[SkyMarshal]

I've dabbled with Awesome and Xmonad, but am not an expert. However I've found that Compiz Grid + Guake on Gnome gives me mouse-less window management too:

http://guake.org/ (in most repo's)

Grid:

    sudo apt-get install compiz-fusion-plugins-extra

CompizConfig -> Window Management -> Enable Grid

Desktop controls:

* Position and tile a window: Ctrl-Alt-[Numpad]

* Show/Hide console: F12

* Open multiple console tabs: Shift-Ctrl-T

* Change workspace: Super-[leftarrow], Super-[righarrow]

* Start any program, open any file: Alt-F2 or Super-Space (for Gnome-Do)