Re: dell laptop cannot access super-key.

[goncholden]

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On Saturday, March 12th, 2022 at 4:56 PM, goncholden 
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> On Saturday, March 12th, 2022 at 11:22 AM, goncholden 
> goncholden@protonmail.com wrote:
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> > On Saturday, March 12th, 2022 at 12:49 AM, Po Lu luangruo@yahoo.com wrote:
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> > > goncholden goncholden@protonmail.com writes:
> > >
> > > > shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
> > > >
> > > > lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
> > > >
> > > > control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x69)
> > > >
> > > > mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x6c), Meta_L (0xcd)
> > > >
> > > > mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
> > > >
> > > > mod3
> > > >
> > > > mod4 Super_L (0x85), Super_R (0x86), Super_L (0xce), Hyper_L (0xcf)
> > > >
> > > > mod5 ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c), Mode_switch (0xcb)
>
> > > Hmm, this seems normal to me. What happens when you type something with
> > >
> > > a super key held down in Emacs?
>
> > I just get the letter printed on the emacs window buffer
>
> > s-x prints the letter x
> > s-b prints the letter b
> > s-m prints the letter m

> Has anybody else encountered this problem? Have also installed Trisquel 8,
> and the problem persists.

Have gone to System >> Preferences >> Keyboard.  Then Layouts tab. Then Layout 
Options to bring up a dialog box.
In the list of options, there is an item marked Alt/Win key behaviour.  But 
could not change the value from
“Default” to “Super is mapped to the Win-keys”.  “Super is mapped to the 
Win-keys” does not exist.