Disappearing WIN key

Philip Rodrigues philip.rodrigues at chch.ox.ac.uk
Sun Jun 3 13:50:25 BST 2007


> I have several application shortcuts for WIN-x.  I have a problem where
> the
> WIN  key stops being recognized after a while (last time, it worked for
> about
> 8 hours or so.  If I stop and start a new session, it goes back to
> working... for a while.
> 
> When I say "stops being recognized", I mean I press WIN-K and "k" will
> show up if the focus in in konsole window.
> 
> I tried xev and I *think* X still recognizes the WIN key.

Try the following: when the Win key is working, run xev, and record the
output from it when you press 'Win'. Wait till the key stops working, and
do the same. Is the output of xev different? Perhaps something's modifying
your keyboard map (via xmodmap or similar).

Regards,
Philip
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