using windows keys

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Monday, March 10th 2003, 11:43pm

Hello,

Does anyone know how to map the windows keys to lauch the menu via kcontrol ?

I can only use the combination of a window key + another key to do something, but it would be nice if only pressing the left windows key would pop up the menu.

then they are not completely useless

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Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 5:00am

Anything Windows-related is destined to be completely useless... :wink:

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Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 7:27am

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Anything Windows-related is destined to be completely useless... :wink:

sigh...

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robbin

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Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 7:42am

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Anything Windows-related is destined to be completely useless... :wink:

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/pfuca-store/

but those win keys can be helpfull... if i can map then to neat functions...

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deity_me

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Saturday, April 26th 2003, 8:04am

i'm interested in this as well
someone post a decent reply rather than mocking an operating system please

thanks

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SuGa

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Saturday, April 26th 2003, 11:43am

http://oncode.info/include/texts.php?sect=linux&text=winkeys
Perhaps this will help :-)

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pmaloney

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Friday, May 2nd 2003, 4:43am

Nice link!! Thank you!!

For the clickety click challenged people out there:

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To use the Windows keys in Linux you have to remap them. This is a possibility to map them to the keys
F13 and F17:

Add the following lines in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40custom_load-xmodmap :
xmodmap -e "keycode 115=F13"
xmodmap -e "keycode 117=F17"

After that and a X-Server reboot you can assign F13 and F17 to special tasks in the KDE control center.

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jonas

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Wednesday, May 21st 2003, 3:50am

Applying functions to keys

The above suggestion works well to re-asign existing KDE functions to any key but what about functions that do not already exist in the Control Center?

How do you add your own function and bind that to a key or key combination?

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Rinse

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Saturday, May 24th 2003, 7:46am

What kind of function do you want to add?

Rinse

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cmbofh

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Saturday, May 24th 2003, 9:10am

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Anything Windows-related is destined to be completely useless... :wink:

Well, then just spend some money and you can have this:
http://www.g-n-u.com/images/tastatur.jpg

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AussieJohn

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Sunday, June 29th 2003, 1:37pm

In Mandrake 9.1, the left Windows key already brings up the Main menu but I don't know the situation with other OSs. The right side Windowskey currently does nothing.

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