A useful application for the windows key?

[neil.linux]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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
>   
Try it on a laptop sometime :)
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