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What you do with your windows button on your keyboard? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 days ago by SolarPunker@slrpnk.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Personally nothing but when I look at it I wonder if the big bang could actually have been a white hole.

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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Corne-ish Zen 3x6 I can definitely see why you don't have a dedicated Windows/Super key then. I do find Super... ahem... super useful though, so you my consider adding it to a layer if it isn't already there. I was never able to adapt to any of the smaller split or ortho keyboard layouts. I sold my OG Ergodox after stubbornly trying to use it for so long. My only winkeyless boards now are my vintage keyboards that predate the windows key.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What kind of use case for Super over meta do think I'm missing? Like I said if I do meta-e I get in KDE Plasma the file explorer, Dolphin, isn't it also the behavior you get?

sold my OG Ergodox

I basically forced myself to use it and it was a good transition from the Microsoft Sculpt but now that I'm a 3x6 I don't want to go back ;)

Transition is always tricky and I find that NOT having a project to rush on for few weeks at least is what I need.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

It isn't a different use case at all, it is that only KDE calls it meta. Everything else that I know of calls it super. If you're a KDE user, you're using it just fine, it is just weird that KDE is the odd man out, especially since meta was traditionally already associated with the alt key. I'm sure someone at KDE had some reason for it and at this point they see no reason to change.