keybinding in xfwm4 and windows keys

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Thu Feb 24 19:55:57 CET 2005


Peter Humphrey wrote:

>Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>the windows key is a *modifier* key.  You can't use it alone as a shortcut
>>key.  You can only use it in combination with others, [as] you'd do with
>>ctrl or alt.  So you can set "windows+F2", but you can't set "windows".
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>Interesting. Which bit does it flip?
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Not sure what you mean.

>And how does Windows manage to make it operate alone?
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I don't know, I'm no Windows programmer ^_~.  Perhaps Windows doesn't 
make such a strong distinction between modifier and "normal" keys.

    -b



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