Personally nothing but when I look at it I wonder if the big bang could actually have been a white hole.
It opens my programs menu (or start menu to use the Windows vernacular). It’s still incredibly useful for me to have it that way
This is the only thing I thank Microsoft for. Thanks for giving us this useful shortcut key. (Use it for almost every shortcut of my desktop btw)
Left button for global shortcuts, right button for Compose
a bunch of shortcuts
- mod + w for waterfox
- mod + n for thunar
- mod + q to quit a program
- mod + d for dmenu
- mod + f to force fullscreen
- mod + enter for a terminal
- hold it down to grab a window
etc.
Familiar, I see you are a person of tiling-culture as well.
To open the App Menu, and for a mod key, same as in Windows
I have lots of shortcuts bound to it except I never press it because I have the caps lock key mapped to the same keycode and that’s easier to press
Bazzite KDE default seems fine for me.
No differently than it’s used in Windows, plus a few more key-chords that utilize it. That’s the default in GNOME and KDE at least, and probably other DEs as well.
I’m more interested in what people do with that strange menu key sitting next to my touch-starved right-CTRL. I know it’s for pulling up the context menu, but I have literally never used it for any reason. When I’m 100% keyboard, I’m probably in a terminal and it won’t do anything any way.
I’m using it for spell checking in Firefox — Menu, then ‘o’ mnemonic to add to the dictionary etc.
The menu key is a convenient place to put the compose key.
The “Windows” key is just called “Meta” key in Linux. It’s used for hotkeys, especially stuff that has to do with window management. I also set a simple press on it without other keys, which would open up “krunner” (to search or run apps).
KDE mostly calls it Meta, GNOME calls it “Super”.
I’ve also seen GUI used (e.g. by QMK)
Right, I completely forgot about “Super”. It might even be the more common term.
AFAIK, only KDE calls it Meta, everything else tends to use Super.
I use it as a modifier key for all of the shortcuts I create since nothing uses it by default.
As yet another modifier key. I use XFCE, so if I bind it to the applications menu, the applications menu will also pop up every time I use any other keybinding involving the Super key, which is less than ideal.
I don’t know how controversial this would be, I wouldn’t mind making it like the command key in MacOS either.
Ritual sacrifice to the penguin god
The only correct answer here.
modifier for window manager nav and general OS controls like
wofi/rofii use it to open my apps menu, same as it did in windows, as well as a modifier key for desktop-level stuff… same as it did in windows lol
tho, i added one shortcut with it which i think is just neat: meta+Z to go to sleep. it’s funny, memorable, easy to access yet hard to press accidentally. tbh i think it should become standard
Same as I do on Windows. When I want to open an application I press it and type in the name. For example: Windows, C, M, D, Enter (I type CMD even on Linux).
