"Super L" vs "windows key"

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Sebastian Spiess <sebastian.spiess at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> for a while i've been using the keyboard shortcut <alt>+e to replace the
> windows behaviour <win>+e to start nautilus in my home dir (similar to
> windows behaviour).
>
> I would like to switch the shortcut to <win>+e but as soon as I try to
> instate the shortcut I can't add the <e> to the combination. Once I press
> the windows key the shortcut is sort of done.
>
> When I assign the windows key to open the Applications menu it works only
> for opening, not for closing.
>
> Hope one can help me, I don't hope I have to get into xev or xmodmap.
>
> Any help is apprechiated

There are several ways in which you can do this. If you want the Windows key 
to be available as a meta key for all X applications, insert the following 
line in the keyboard section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

  Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:meta_win"

Restart X, and you should be able to use the Windows key as a modifier.


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