A useful application for the windows key?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Mar 7 12:09:58 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 07 March 2007, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>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

Yeah, I had to bite too.  I just LOVE rebooting with the hardware reset 
button.

Cheers, Gene
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