I’m old school. I don’t have one of those fancy multimedia keyboards, but I do have one of those new fancy Windows-keyboards. That’s right – I’ve now got three extra keys I can’t really use for anything. I tried to map Win+F11 and Win+F12 to adjust my volume in Gnome, but no dice – it just displays Super R the moment I hit the Win-key. But there is a solution 
The solution is to redefine the Win-key behaviour. Open up System » Keyboard » Preferences, select the Layout tab, click Latyout Options… and change Alt/Win key behaviour from Default to Hyper is mapped to Win-keys.
I went straight back to Keyboard Shortcuts and tried Win+F11 again – this time I got Mod4+F11, proving that the Win-key now works as a modifier instead of a normal key:
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Gnome, Keyboard, WinKeys, X11, Xorg
Is your machine too old and too slow? Does the Gnome Desktop make you grind your teeth with impatience? Why not take Xfce or LXDE for a test spin?
Install both software groups:
yum groupinstall -y ‘XFCE’
yum groupinstall -y ‘LXDE’
Installing the LXDE group also gives you Openbox. LXDE and Xfce pretty much looks like the Gnome Desktop with application menus and icons on the desktop, whereas Openbox reminds me more of the good old days, where every application launch started with right-clicking on the desktop.
To try these desktop environments out, click your username on the login screen, pick the environment you want in the Session pull-down menu at the bottom of the screen, enter your password and you’re all set.
Note: Openbox’ Logout menu item didn’t work for me, but Exit did the trick. If you get stuck, you can simply kill the whole graphics subsystem (Xorg) with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE.
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Fedora, Fedora10, Gnome, LXDE, Openbox, Xfce
