Thanks Paul for your reply.
For reference, i looked around on the net a little and found
a solution, which i don't think is as good as yours. The solution
is to add something to your .profile like
if test "$DISPLAY" ; then
xmodmap -e 'remove Lock = Caps_Lock'
xmodmap -e 'keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L'
xmodmap -e 'add Control = Control_L'
fi
This works, although if you manage to put a sufficiently
grave error in your .profile (which i did by accidentally leaving
off a quote) then, at least on debian 6.0.4, you cannot log
into your account. (So i guess the moral is it's always
good to have some alternative route to your account.)
I think your solution sounds better and is certainly more
informative because it is specific to Window Maker and
doesn't involve extra parsing each time .profile is read.
(So it's also more satisfying, no matter how fast computers
these days are.)
Thanks Rodolfo for your reply also.
The FAQ you pointed to was useful (although i managed
to trash my /dev/console in messing around with asclock).
Now, regarding your advice to use 0.95 instead of 0.92---
i'm not quite ready to do that, because i need to get a little
used to both using and doing builds on debian first i think.
(That is, presumably i'll be building a wmaker somewhere,
and then need to learn how to get the system to use my
version instead of the one from the package tree. Right
now i have no idea what this entails, but it's the second
edge of the double-edged package sword imho.)
dan
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