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How to enable Windows key as Super key in linux

I’ve you tried beryl or compiz you probably had notice that the Super key (the windows key, also known as Meta key) is used a lot. By default in my Fedora Core 6 installation the Windows key is not enabled, I had to add `Option “XkbOptions” “altwin:super_win”` to the `InputDevice` section of my `/etc/X11/xorg.conf` to activate it.

This is how the `InputDevice` section look like now:

...
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "es"
        Option      "XkbOptions" "altwin:super_win"
EndSection
...

via Noiesmo’s GNU/Linux Site

This entry was written by ruben.laguna, posted on January 9, 2007 at 6:48 am, filed under linux and tagged , , , , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

4 Comments

  1. Daniele Orlando
    Posted November 15, 2007 at 10:48 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the tip.

    Daniele Orlando

  2. Shawn Chicago
    Posted March 4, 2008 at 2:53 am | Permalink

    Great tip ThanX!

    I have a old IBM clicky keyboard (circa 1982) – feels so good – anyway, since my keyboard does not have a super key how would I go about assigning the left alt key as the super key ?

  3. Anonymous
    Posted June 3, 2008 at 11:31 am | Permalink

    just what i was looking for thanks

  4. soulslayer
    Posted October 31, 2008 at 1:05 pm | Permalink

    Thanks!

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