I don’t have one. If I did, I want change the keycap.

Now… it’s called a meta key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_key … and I use it exactly as one would on Windows, e.g. Meta-e starts the file explorer … but I added my shortcuts too e.g. :

• meta+k for konsole
• meta+f for FIP (online French radio, music only, no ads)
• meta+F to stop FIP
• meta+a to play the series I’m currently watching
• meta+A to stop mpv (playing the current series)
• meta+o to turn on my office lights
• meta+l to turn off those lights
• meta+ESC to turn off lights and suspend computer
• meta+s for Spectacle to take a screenshot

and I have quite a others I can’t recall right now.

Same as I do on Windows. When I want to open an application I press it and type in the name. For example: Windows, C, M, D, Enter (I type CMD even on Linux).

I use it as the prefix key for my tiling window manager (stumpwm), and have mapped it to the “Super” X11 modifier for Emacs.

(Also, I have mapped CapsLock to the Hyper modifier, which I mostly use for user-defined commands. Not as powerful as the original space cadet keyboard, but not bad!).

BTW, one thing that is great about StumpWM is that you can define commands to script actions on GUI applications. For Example, if you are in a Firefox window, you can script Ctrl-t-B (or perhaps Hyper-B) to go to the adress bar, copy the URL, then call xsel to append the content of the buffer to a file which is called ~/bookmarks.txt, and finally open your preferred editor to add a comment.

Left: start/stop playing music via xmms2

Right: open a zenity file selector to load music into xmms2

I use GNOME on my distros so it’s pretty handy for operating the system with just a keyboard.

I don’t have one. In its place I have a meta key with a diamond design on the keycap. Why would I need a “Windows” key if I haven’t used Windows in over a decade?

It’s for window management related hotkeys. Obviously. All about windows. With a lowercase “w”.

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)

I use it as a modifier key for all of the shortcuts I create since nothing uses it by default.

Mostly the same as Windows, ie for opening the application launcher menu, as well as for a variety of global shortcuts.

Super key for DE keybinds or other global hotkeys. Nothing uses it so you don’t have to worry about collisions.

Compose key

It’s my Super key. It’s used for like everything in my DE (Hyprland).

It opens my programs menu (or start menu to use the Windows vernacular). It’s still incredibly useful for me to have it that way

Left button for global shortcuts, right button for Compose