Annoying win key problem

Kevin Sigl Kevin.Sigl at gmail.com
Wed Apr 26 03:57:39 UTC 2006


Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 15:54 -0300, Marcelo Magno T Sales wrote:
>   
>> There's a problem with the win key in FC5 which is annoying me since I 
>> migrated from FC4. In Fedora's KDE 3.5.1 and later in kde-redhat's KDE 
>> 3.5.2, when I logon, the win key doesn't work as it should.
>> When I press win+C, for example, it looks like these keys are "sensed" 
>> by KDE as two separeted keypresses instead of one "combo" keypress. I 
>> can see this when I try to configure a new shortcut using the win key. 
>> When I press it, the shortcut field shows "win+", but when I press 
>> the next key (while holding win), the shortcut field shows only the 
>> second key pressed and not the combination win+key.
>>     
>
> Just adding:  I've seen the same thing with Gnome and FC5.
>
> It seemed some combinations were allowed, others were not.  I don't
> remember which, now, we were just experimenting with adding hotkeys to
> things.
>   

Me too. Worked in FC4 doesn't in FC5. Any suggestiong where to start 
looking?




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