On 4/24/06, Marcelo Magno T Sales <marcelo.sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, folks > > 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. > Then I open Regional Settings in Control Center and undo and redo my > keyboard configuration several times until it starts to work again. > It remains working as far as I don't log out. After the next log in, > the win key may or may not work, apparently randomically. > This strange behavior didn't happen in FC4 with KDE 3.5.1 and below. > I use a brazilian ABNT2 keyboard, don't know if this problem occurs > with others keyboard layouts. > I believe the problem is not in KDE, since it didn't happen in FC4 > with the same KDE 3.5.1. However, the win key work after I change and > unchange settings in Control Center... > Any clue about why is this happening, or at least where I can start > researching this? Don't know where the problem may be and I have > three FC5 machines with the same behavior. > > Thanks, > > Marcelo > Found this http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2002/10/msg00340.html Add this to your xorg.conf Keyboard Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:meta_win"
