A useful application for the windows key?

[Matthew Flaschen]

neil.linux wrote:
> 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 :)

It's not that bad.  You just have to hold down the on button for 5-10
seconds.

Matt Flaschen