Re: win key for K menu

On Sat, July 17 2004 23:45, Adrian Mihailescu wrote:
> Hi, try to press Win key after you turn off Numlock.
> It's a bug in KDE that appears to affect all the distros (I just install
> Mepis to check it out). Hopefuly somebody will solve the problem.

Exactly. Given the lack of answers to my question,  I've been thinking either 
nobody knew or cared about this. It'd be nice to have this fixed soon, it's 
very annoying.

Thanks a lot for your message.

Sebastian

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> your message
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> Dear List,
>
> I've just moved to Linux and KDE from Windows XP. I've searched all over
> the net and help files to find a solution to this small problem. The
> solutions I've found are not cutting it.
>
> I'd like to use the Windows key (start key) to open up the K menu, just
> like it opens the start menu in Windows (i.e. right on top of the K button
> in the taskbar). When I was running Knoppix 3.4 from the CD, it worked
> exactly like that. But once I installed it on the HD, this feature is gone.
> The solution offered by Knoppix and a few other sites involves remapping
> this key to the pop-up-launch-menu command, but this makes the k menu pop
> up wherever the mouse happens to be sitting. Not good.
>
> I've also tried copying the .config folder from the Knoppix CD to no avail.
>
> Any tips?
>
> Sorry for cross-postings.
>
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