adding this here as a reminder to myself, got some feedback from a user on Monday this week, any comments?
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I have been testing the image and it works really well so far. I added and removed some components that are more in keeping with the workflow of the WM
xscreensaver
lxsession
pcmanfm-qt (replaces thunar)
alacritty (replaces shipped terminal)
luakit
howl (replaces mousepad)
libvoikko (luakit dep)
nuspell (luakit dep)
hunspell(en_us for my system, luakit dep)
xcursor-maia (replaces xcursor-breeze which removes manjaro-awesome-settings)
manjaro-settings-manager
The shipped config also defines pa-applet as the volume control, but I feel pasystray is more flexible."