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.
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by holding it i can grab a window anywhere to drag it
Hold super and right-click a window to resize it. Ymmv
Oh, yeah, and holding the right mouse and dragging to resize the window.
Change mine to blank transparent keycap, I generally use it for mod key
I use GNOME on my distros so it's pretty handy for operating the system with just a keyboard.
This is the only thing I thank Microsoft for. Thanks for giving us this useful shortcut key. (Use it for almost every shortcut of my desktop btw)
Left button for global shortcuts, right button for Compose
One-handed locking my PC as I leave my desk with Windows-L.
It is a component of the keyboard shortcuts I use to swap between virtual desktops and snap windows to the left/right side.
Left: start/stop playing music via xmms2
Right: open a zenity file selector to load music into xmms2
Mostly the same as Windows, ie for opening the application launcher menu, as well as for a variety of global shortcuts.
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.
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for xmonad commands. also windows-p is dmenu.