Bug 373798

Summary: Super (Windows) Key does not open the menu after suspend.
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: silentz0r <d.misdanitis>
Component: inputAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: kde, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.8.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description silentz0r 2016-12-18 03:20:01 UTC
Super key only works as Meta after suspend.
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-12-18 10:52:58 UTC
What version of plasma / KWin are you running exactly? There has been a bug in 5.8.0 where KWin would confuse modifier states and break the Meta launcher activation but that was fixed in a later version.
Comment 2 silentz0r 2016-12-18 12:56:01 UTC
(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #1)
> What version of plasma / KWin are you running exactly? There has been a bug
> in 5.8.0 where KWin would confuse modifier states and break the Meta
> launcher activation but that was fixed in a later version.

I've had this bug ever since the Meta key was changed to Super, roughly 4 months. I'm on Plasma 5.8.4.
Comment 3 Martin Flöser 2016-12-18 13:45:20 UTC
> I've had this bug ever since the Meta key was changed to Super

What do you mean by that?
Comment 4 silentz0r 2016-12-18 16:30:45 UTC
(In reply to Martin Gräßlin from comment #3)
> > I've had this bug ever since the Meta key was changed to Super
> 
> What do you mean by that?

A few months ago the meta key was changed from a modifier key to work as a super key, i.e. both as a modifier and as a single key, so we can finally use it to open up the application menu/dashboard.
Comment 5 Martin Flöser 2016-12-18 21:02:42 UTC
OK. So on Linux super and meta key are the same thing. That confused me.
Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2016-12-21 03:29:11 UTC
Thanks for the update.
Comment 7 Martin Flöser 2016-12-28 08:05:04 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 370920 ***