Win key not working

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Hi,

Em Domingo 15 Outubro 2006 15:29, kitts escreveu:

> Still now luck! :-(. No events seen with `xev`.
> I guess this isn't really a KDE thing so if i should be lookin elsewhere,
> pointers would be helpful.

Here the win key works, but not always. Sometimes I log in and it just works 
as it should, and sometimes it doesn't.
If it doesn't, I can log off and log in again till it works. Or I can change 
the keyboard layout in Control Center for any other keyboard and then set it 
back to the correct one a few times till it works. Once it works,  it remains 
working as long as I'm logged in.
No idea about what's causing that. I'm using Fedora Core 5 and KDE 3.5.4 from 
kde-redhat. My keyboard is ABNT2 (brazilian). It worked before, when I was 
using Fedora Core 4, but too many packages have changed from FC4 to FC5 and I 
don't know where exactly is the problem.

One thing that works is to add the line:
Option          "XkbOptions" "altwin:meta_win"
to your xorg.conf. But then, this has the collateral effect of Alt GR (the 
right ALT key) not working as it should. I mean, when I add this line the win 
key always work, but I can't use Alt GR to access the special symbols that 
there are in some of my keyboard keys (some keys have a third character 
printed on them, which should be accessible using Alt GR).

Till now, I didn't manage to get win key and Alt GR working at the same time. 
As far as I now, despite the erratic behavior of KDE where sometimes the win 
key works and sometimes it doesn't, this is a X configuration problem. I've 
read reports from Gnome users with the same problem.

[]'s
Marcelo
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