-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 16 October 2003 01:15, Jarrod Major wrote: > I have a question. It appears I am going with default settings for the most > part but rather than have the 'key-with-the-windows-icon' (TM) sitting > there doing nothing I have assigned it to a few things. My question is, can > you assign the key without having it as a combination? The Windows > behaviour is to press the 'key-with-the-windows-icon' (TM) and get the > Start Menu. I'd like to map this behaviour so that it is set to Popup > Launch Menu. However, it appears that it will not let you map a single key > to this action. Is there a conf file to edit if the GUI tool doesn't > support this?
yeah, the GUI doesn't like you doing this =/ but if you open up your $KDEHOME/ share/config/kdelobals file ($KDEHOME is usually ~/.kde), go to the [Global Shortcuts] section and edit the Popup Launch Menu entry ... set it to Win and it should work. > The GUI for defining custom key combinations has a checkbox for Multi-key > which is off by default. This would suggest to me that you could input a > single key for this entry. no, it's the opposite. it means "Emacs style" where you do something like Ctrl-a then Ctrl-s (or any other two key combo combo) > Did I just find a bug? well, yes and no. the modifier keys are meant to be modifiers, which means they are designed to be used with other keys. the win key is probably the one alternative to this, thanks to Microsoft's wisdom. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jvzs1rcusafx20MRAtqTAJ9yqKc0j87/RbB1fA10KM9QZACuVgCgqoto t83XVGABYt6al7ZLHKhAY1Y= =Cilr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
