>perhaps I'm not the only one who does this. The placement
>of the "control" key on PC keyboards is brain-dead as far
>as I am concerned. So I use some magic from xmodmap to swap
>the caps lock key and the control key (in x). But this fix has
>the irritating feature that the caps-lock LED changes state
>every time I hit the caps-lock key.
>
>Does anyone know of a simple way to get the caps lock LED to be
>toggled only when I hit the control key (which is mapped under
>x-windows to behave like the cap-lock key ) ?

It's not simple, but I don't think it would be very hard to hack pccons to
switch the meaning of caps lock and control around.  That way it would solve
the LED problem, and it would work from the console as well.

--Ken