That's a reasonable alternative and something that one could get used to. After all, Vim and Emacs people have been rebinding Caps Lock to Esc/Ctrl for a long time. One possible downside is the extra strain that this would put on the pinky.
An alternative that I've been wondering about is key sequences (M x) for WM actions and key chords (M-x) for all other things. This seems possible to do in xmonad (last point in this blog post [1])
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That's a reasonable alternative and something that one could get used to. After all, Vim and Emacs people have been rebinding Caps Lock to Esc/Ctrl for a long time. One possible downside is the extra strain that this would put on the pinky.
An alternative that I've been wondering about is key sequences (M x) for WM actions and key chords (M-x) for all other things. This seems possible to do in xmonad (last point in this blog post [1])
[1] http://versia.com/2009/10/xmonad-metacity-gnome/