Unity superkey

[Doug]

On 4/24/2011 12:29 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> I've watched some of the videos and read some of the links posted 
> here. I now understand that the super key is the windows key, but I 
> must have missed how to use a keyboard with no windows key.
>
> Is it possible?
>
> Regards,  Jim
>
I have been using ancient IBM keyboards for years, and have used them on 
Win 98, XP, Win 7, Debian, Ubuntu, suse, pclinuxos.  They're the best
keyboards ever made, in my not so humble opinion, and they have no 
Windows keys.  What would you use them for, anyway?  The only key you
really need is not on the Win k/bs either:  the compose key.  You can 
make it in Linux, and you can get a program called "AllChars" that will make
it for you in Windows.  (You could make it on one of the Windows keys, 
if you have any.  I use the right ctrl key.)  With a compose key and two
following keystrokes you can make all the diacritical marks used in 
European languages ,the German ß, as well as some fractions and the 
three major
currency symbols besides the $.

--doug

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