[digiKam-users] Keyboard dumb question?

[digikam-2]

DK 5.9.0 appimage on Manjaro XFCE.

What is the meta key?

I have a standard Cherry G80 keyboard. Here's an image:

https://deskthority.net/wiki/File:G80-3850_--_Top_View_incl._Acc.jpg

When I press: left-windows key-ctrl-f1: I get tty1. Also tried with
the right-windows key and also tried the context key. No go...

https://i.imgur.com/ZKml6JD.png

meta-ctrl-f1

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[Maik Qualmann]

Yes, Meta == Windows key. Ctrl + Meta + F1 works as it should. Console 1 is
CTRL + Alt + F1.

Maik

Am Montag, 17. September 2018, 20:06:49 CEST schrieb [hidden email]:

> DK 5.9.0 appimage on Manjaro XFCE.
>
> What is the meta key?
>
> I have a standard Cherry G80 keyboard. Here's an image:
>
> https://deskthority.net/wiki/File:G80-3850_--_Top_View_incl._Acc.jpg
>
> When I press: left-windows key-ctrl-f1: I get tty1. Also tried with
> the right-windows key and also tried the context key. No go...
>
> https://i.imgur.com/ZKml6JD.png
>
> meta-ctrl-f1

[digikam-2]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:15:10 +0200
Maik Qualmann <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Yes, Meta == Windows key. Ctrl + Meta + F1 works as it should.

Thanks. I was pressing the meta/windows key first like it shows in
the configure shortcuts. Ctrl key first works.

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[Maik Qualmann]

The keys sequence plays a role? Not here. What you all have for strange Linux
distributions? ((:-))

Maik

Am Montag, 17. September 2018, 20:43:50 CEST schrieb [hidden email]:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:15:10 +0200
>
> Maik Qualmann <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Yes, Meta == Windows key. Ctrl + Meta + F1 works as it should.
>
> Thanks. I was pressing the meta/windows key first like it shows in
> the configure shortcuts. Ctrl key first works.

[Syv Ritch]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:21:05 +0200
Maik Qualmann <[hidden email]> wrote:

> The keys sequence plays a role? Not here. What you all have for
> strange Linux distributions? ((:-))

Manjaro which is a slight "re-cook" of archlinux. I doubt that it's
the distribution, more likely to be the desktop environment. I use
xfce.

sknahT

vyS

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> Maik
>
> Am Montag, 17. September 2018, 20:43:50 CEST schrieb
> [hidden email]:
> > On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:15:10 +0200
> >
> > Maik Qualmann <[hidden email]> wrote:  
> > > Yes, Meta == Windows key. Ctrl + Meta + F1 works as it should.  
> >
> > Thanks. I was pressing the meta/windows key first like it shows in
> > the configure shortcuts. Ctrl key first works.  
>
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>
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[hajo]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 2:15 AM Maik Qualmann <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yes, Meta == Windows key. Ctrl + Meta + F1 works as it should. Console 1 is
CTRL + Alt + F1.
 

Emacs user here. To me, the "Meta"-key is, on a PC keyboard, the <ALT> key. I'd call the <Windows>  key "Super"-key instead. Which is what I've also seen across the web so far. CTRL-Meta-Fx then indeed switches consoles as expected :)

Not in front of a Linux box now but, afair, the Super-key gets intercepted by gnome-shell instantly to go to the activities screen. It may be very tricky to assign this as a combination to other shortcuts; sequence of key presses (CTRL first or Super first) may indeed matter.