Comment #11 on issue 69 by kekito.fig: Key binding improvements http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=69 There's a really simple way to do this! I'm surprised the example isn't in a FAQ somewhere, but this issue shows up first on Google for "xmonad prefix key", so I'm adding the code here. Tailor to your preference. The tuple passed to prefixKey is a regular xmonad-style (modifier, keycode) tuple. In this file, I use an unmodded Escape key as my prefix, and strip the modifier from the usual keybindings by setting modMask to 0. So, where a keybinding used to be (modMask, keycode), I've changed it to the moral equivalent of [(0, xK_Escape), (0, keycode)]. Have fun, and happy hacking! P.S. Haskell's type system rules. As soon as I got this to compile, it Just Worked. :) Attachments: xmonad.hs 276 bytes