A standard for global/desktop environment shortcuts to prevent conflicts with Linux apps

[Emmanuele Bassi]

On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 22:37, <rhkramer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 06, 2020 03:41:16 PM Noah Davis wrote:
> > Hello, KDE is currently trying to standardize on reserving the
> > Meta/Super/Start/Command key for global/desktop environment shortcuts.
> > It seems to me that it would be in the interest of every desktop
> > environment to standardize on this in order to prevent global/shell
> > shortcuts from conflicting with Linux apps. For instance, Alt + Left
> > Click is an old shortcut for dragging windows around that is still
> > used by KWin, but it conflicts with Blender, GIMP, Inkscape and Krita.
> > Many creative workflow apps need modifier+mouse button shortcuts to be
> > fast and easy to use and apps generally avoid using Meta/Super
> > already.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Of course!  ;-)
>
> It would help me to know which key(s) you're talking about on a "standard"
> (Dos / Windows?) 104-key keyboard (well, I didn't count them, but I'm
> pretty
> sure it's 104 keys.
>

The Windows logo/Command *⌘ *key is usually mapped as the Super modifier.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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