Personally nothing but when I look at it I wonder if the big bang could actually have been a white hole.
It opens up anyrun.
It does nothing and has been broken for a long time. It can be used for hotkeys but there are none that I use. I only want it to open the start menu. Yes i know I can easily bind it in KDE plasma hotkey menu but i havent gotten around to it yet.
As yet another modifier key. I use XFCE, so if I bind it to the applications menu, the applications menu will also pop up every time I use any other keybinding involving the Super key, which is less than ideal.
I don’t know how controversial this would be, I wouldn’t mind making it like the command key in MacOS either.
Ritual sacrifice to the penguin god
The only correct answer here.
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It opens my programs menu (or start menu to use the Windows vernacular). It’s still incredibly useful for me to have it that way
It’s for window management related hotkeys. Obviously. All about windows. With a lowercase “w”.
Mostly the same as Windows, ie for opening the application launcher menu, as well as for a variety of global shortcuts.
It’s my Super key. It’s used for like everything in my DE (Hyprland).
No differently than it’s used in Windows, plus a few more key-chords that utilize it. That’s the default in GNOME and KDE at least, and probably other DEs as well.
I’m more interested in what people do with that strange menu key sitting next to my touch-starved right-CTRL. I know it’s for pulling up the context menu, but I have literally never used it for any reason. When I’m 100% keyboard, I’m probably in a terminal and it won’t do anything any way.
I’m using it for spell checking in Firefox — Menu, then ‘o’ mnemonic to add to the dictionary etc.
The menu key is a convenient place to put the compose key.
modifier for window manager nav and general OS controls like
wofi/rofii use it to open my apps menu, same as it did in windows, as well as a modifier key for desktop-level stuff… same as it did in windows lol
tho, i added one shortcut with it which i think is just neat: meta+Z to go to sleep. it’s funny, memorable, easy to access yet hard to press accidentally. tbh i think it should become standard
Compose key
I use “PrintScreen” for that …
how many times have you torn a muscle attached to your right pinky?
Oh, it’s not that bad. I use UK international with AltGr to type English, program code, and German. I don’t use the Compose key so often. Just for some extra symbols like Greek alpha or ° C.
That explains. I write in 5 languages :)
Super key for DE keybinds or other global hotkeys. Nothing uses it so you don’t have to worry about collisions.
I don’t have one. In its place I have a meta key with a diamond design on the keycap. Why would I need a “Windows” key if I haven’t used Windows in over a decade?
This
It is a component of the keyboard shortcuts I use to swap between virtual desktops and snap windows to the left/right side.
