I've used Xmonad for a few weeks now and it is simply great: "screen real estate" is never wasted, you get free brain cycles by never doing the nitty-gritty det

I've used Xmonad for a few weeks now and it is simply great: "screen real estate" is never wasted, you get free brain cycles by never doing the nitty-gritty details of window arrangement manually again - you switch high level "layout algorithms" instead that arrange your windows differently. Are you (like me) an Emacs user? You want to remap the Xmonad modifier-key (default is on left Alt a.k.a. Meta). Here is my solution: xmodmap -e "clear Mod3" xmodmap -e "clear Lock" xmodmap -e "add Mod3 = Caps_Lock" xmonad taken from my ~/.xsession file - this remaps the "Caps Lock" key as a "Mod3 key". My ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs looks like this: import XMonad main = xmonad defaultConfig { modMask = mod3Mask , terminal = "xterm" } Now I can use Caps Lock as Xmonad modifier key and Ctrl/Meta as I'm used to for Emacs (note that I have a PC 102 keyboard - if you have a keyboard with "Windows"-key you might use this key as modifier key instead and perhaps remap Caps Lock as your Control key...).