I just spent an hour or so reading about xmodmap so that I could change my 
windows key back to a meta key rather than F13, which it's set to by default. 
After logging back in to KDE though, all my changes were gone.

The startkde script, or more specifically, the /usr/bin/test-windows-key 
script, overrides any changes you make to the /etc/X11/Xmodmap, which I don't 
think is a very good idea. Right now the script simply checks 
/etc/sysconfig/keyboards for DISABLE_WINDOWS_KEY and then calls xmodmap to 
set the key to F13. 

It would be nice if /usr/bin/test-windows-key checked /etc/X11/Xmodmap for 
keycode 115, 116, 117 as well, so that the documentation all over the web 
that tells you how to fix this would work, and so that I wouldn't have to 
comment out that script to prevent it from running.
-Elliott Martin


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