[mdlug] What should we call the windows key on the keyboard?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 16:11 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Setting Orange, the 54th of Confusion, 3179 , gib at juno.com said:
> > I have seen instructions that refer to the "Windows" key on a
> > keyboard.  What would the proper name for this be for those of us
> > who don't think in terms of windows? 
> 
> I believe the keycodes refer to them as the Left and Right Windows Key
> (VK_LWIN and VK_RWIN).  Probably the least confusing thing to call
> them, even when using it on a non-windows system.

I believe the old "xev" program will display the key-scan codes.
GNOME-Shell has a debug console as well that will display events.


--
Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA