On Sunday 27 June 2004 10:56, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > Does anyone here know what's going on with this? Is it an X problem or > > > KDE (or both)? Anyone able to disable it? > > > > Go play around in kcontrol under Regional, Keyboard Shortcuts. > > So I had looked there before, but I looked again and I still don't see > anything. I imagine it should be in "Global Shortcuts," but the only > menu-related things are for the popup menu. > > Has anyone here been able to disable this?
OK, so this is a pretty bad bug in KDE. Someone filed a bug (#29105) complaining that the Windows key didn't open the KDE menu. But because they wanted the windows key to sometimes act as a modifier key (when pressed at the same time as another key: e.g. Win+R for Run...) and sometimes not (for pressing Windows by itself to bring up the KDE menu). They couldn't get it to work within the normal X ways, so someone hard-coded something into kcmkeys. Fortunately (?) there's a bug (#77955) with the hard-coding. If the Num_Lock key/Mod2 modifier is on, the KDE menu won't come up. So, to disable this, exploit the Num_Lock bug. As if keyboard handling for Linux/X11 wasn't hard enough. Frank
