adding new env var DEV. giving visibility to coding project on pythonpath. will have to think about installing applications to a specific locations so as not to require adding each project to the pythonpath
Pointing gitconfig excludes file to a file that exists
Found out that having a hash anywhere on the line effectively removes that line from the config. So adding ignore for .swp and .pyc files
Adding back xcompmgr, since I need it for the current window transparency. Not sure if these changes work but I've moved the screen layout and background set after starting xmonad. Was getting odd behavior where the background would get set, but then the screen resolution would be set and the background would not expand to the resolution correctly.