Re: <Windows> Key + Red Hat 7.3?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Jonathan Pryor <jonpryor vt edu> writes:

> I want to be able to use it for shortcuts.  E.g. <Window>-r for Run
> Program, etc...
> 
> Currently the <Window> key is ignored, so when I press <Window>-r in the
> Gnome 2 Keyboard Shortcuts applet (or any other applet), only the "r" is
> recorded.

I believe this is a bug in the GNOME 2 keyboard shortcuts applet. 

(It can't handle modifiers that GTK+ doesn't handle normally, and 
GTK+ only deals with the "common" modifiers... of course, the
shortcut capplet would then need to distinguish betwen locations
where it could support the extra modifiers, and where it can't.)

See: 

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83334

(It was sitting in GNOME bugzilla as a GTK+ API request, but most of
the functionality could be achieved without the GTK+ addition, so I've
filed a separate GTK+ bug and moved it back to control-center.)

If you care strongly about this, you might want to file a Red Hat
bugzilla bug so we remember to at least evaluate how much work it
would take to fix the issue.

Regards,
                                        Owen