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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Gnome 2.12: cannot include Win key in keybindings

The Win key now appears as "0x73" in Gnome's keybindings list, and is not responded to. Is this a Gnome 2.12 issue, or a problem with my xorg.conf?

nightfrost

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-04-16

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Re: Gnome 2.12: cannot include Win key in keybindings

If I don't completely misunderstand you, you probably have to map the 'win key' to 'meta' under keyboard-options in preferences...

Gullible Jones

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Re: Gnome 2.12: cannot include Win key in keybindings

Should be Super, not Meta, I think... But I tried mapping that to the Win keys, and got an error:

Error activating XKB configuration.
It can happen under various circumstances:
- a bug in libxklavier library
- a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)
- X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation

X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
60802000

If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd

nightfrost

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Registered: 2005-04-16

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Re: Gnome 2.12: cannot include Win key in keybindings

For me only meta seems to work; and, indeed, only the option which maps meta to the left win key, or something to that effect (I'm not at my computer now, so I can't check)

Gullible Jones

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Re: Gnome 2.12: cannot include Win key in keybindings

That gives the same error.

Gullible Jones

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Re: Gnome 2.12: cannot include Win key in keybindings

Ack... Any fixes yet?