On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 07:09:36 -0500 Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 10:25 PM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 9/1/21 8:40 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
At some point my Windows (Super) key stopped working.
Trying the following doesn't produce any output when the super key is pressed:
I don't see what you're trying to test here. That keyboard is going to be filtered. I actually can't get any output from that test when I try it, regardless of what keys. If you want to see if the keyboard is actually producing codes, then you need to use "evtest" instead. gets you events at the kernel level.
Thanks, I was just trying whatever I found googling the problem. I did get output from every other key I tried other than Super.
Just tried evtest and all the keys I tried worked except for Super.
So the symptoms are:
Only the Super key doesn't work on your system, even at the kernel level.
The Super key works on windows.
I would conclude it is not the keyboard, but that you have something set that is capturing that key in linux. Do you perhaps have it set as a dead key in your keyboard mapping? That is, you press that key and then press two other keys to get a special character. For instance, on my system pressing my dead key, the windows menu key, and then t and m gives the ™ symbol.