-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Jul 6, Neil Bird did say: > You'd need to change the key to be a 'proper' key (find some odd one you're > not using on your current keyboard), not just a modifier (e.g., use xkeycaps & > fiddle your login accordingly). > > Modifiers by themselves can't 'do' things. I'm not exactly an expert here, but I've been multi-booting more than one flavor of linux for a while now. And on some of the distros I've had installed, the kdestart menu was configured to start on pressing the windows key all by itself. At the moment I can't remember which one(s) for sure, and I'm not rebooting to test if it's true of any of my currently installed distros. But at least one of SuSE 7.3, MDK 8.2, MDK 9.1,or RH 9 did so... Actually, unlike the OP I would prefer it to work as a modifier key that required some other key to complete the shortcut, as that adds a lot more shortcut options. I prefer to sometimes overload a key (for example lets say the "tab" key so that: ctrl-tab, alt-tab, "win"-tab, ctrl+alt-tab, ctrl+"win"-tab, alt+"win"-tab, & ctrl+alt+"win"-tab could be used as seven different shortcuts.) I remember that with FC1 I was able to do at least some of that. ( I didn't try for all seven, But I did use some shortcuts where I used alt, "win" & alt+"win" as modifiers to the same key, triggering three different shortcuts. But when I tried this with FC2 using: kde-start -> preferences -> "kde control center" -> "regional & accessibility" -> "keyboard shortcuts" It knows the win key is a modifier key when I press it while trying to assign a shortcut, at least it displays it as win+ and waits for anther key, but no matter what key I add to it (even another modifier) it disappears from the shortcut building tool as soon as I add the other key. Though if I start with "ctrl" or "alt" _first_ I can get it to temporarily display "ctrl+win+" or "alt+win+" in the tool's display, yet the moment I try to add another key to complete the chorded shortcut (say I try to add "x") the "ctrl+win+" + "x" becomes "ctrl+x" and the "alt+win+" + "x" becomes "alt+x"... And I haven't a clue why. - -- | ? ? | | -=- -=- I'm NOT clueless... | <?> <?> But I just don't know. | ^ Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | --- J(tWdy)P | <jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx> | ? ? ############################################################## # You can find my public gpg key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ # ############################################################## -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA7BfNRZ/61mwhY94RAjyyAJ9fEnGkErFRuPEAxpme3eVtd/mnfwCZASUm 3osMuA75gVWHTJn1uSGtIWo= =KmqR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
