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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

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4 Responses to “How to enable Windows key as Super key in linux”

  1. Daniele Orlando Says:
    November 15th, 2007 at 10:48 pm

    Thanks for the tip.

    Daniele Orlando

  2. Shawn Chicago Says:
    March 4th, 2008 at 2:53 am

    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 ?

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    March 28th, 2008 at 5:44 pm

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  4. Anonymous Says:
    June 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 am

    just what i was looking for thanks

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