[xubuntu-users] Open Whisker Menu

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 15:48 +0800, ZP wrote:
> Sorry man...that doesn't work for me and it won't work for the OP.  By
> setting Whisker Menu to open with *just* the Super Key (and the
> subsequent auto setting of 'Super+L' in the keyboard shortcuts) you've
> create a holy mess when you try to use other 'Super' modified
> shortcuts, like Super+F and Super+T.  As I said...whisker opens
> first...always.  
> 
> I'm not sure you were tracking what I was saying.  XFCE activates super
> when the key is pressed, not on release. Super Key on the
> 'upstroke'...or the 'release' of a 'press and release' cycle of key
> pressing...is the behavior used by 'Windows' and is the behavior many
> people try to replicate when they move over to Linux/XFCE.
> 
> I've learned to live with it and set it to "LCTL-SPACE" ala
> Synapse/Kupfer.  Works great.  However, if there was a way to modify the
> super key to give me my default menu/search in Xubuntu, I'd do it in a
> heartbeat.

Clearly a Xfce4 bug, you should report it to an upstream bug-tracker. As
I already pointed out, I don't use Xfce4 myself anymore, for good
reasons I switched to Jwm. I wasn't aware of this bug.