Making use of the Windows-keys
July 5th, 2009
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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:
