Personally nothing but when I look at it I wonder if the big bang could actually have been a white hole.
- Meta by itself just opens the launcher thingy in KDE so I can search for an app.
- Meta + T = Open terminal
- Meta + E = Open Dolphin (this is a Windows holdover, Meta + E opened Explorer but it’s kind of hard-coded into my brain now)
- Meta + F = Open Firefox
I think that’s all of them.
Meta+T opens a terminal about once every 5 minutes on my machine.
a bunch of shortcuts
- mod + w for waterfox
- mod + n for thunar
- mod + q to quit a program
- mod + d for dmenu
- mod + f to force fullscreen
- mod + enter for a terminal
- hold it down to grab a window
etc.
almost niri
Familiar, I see you are a person of tiling-culture as well.
Use as
$metain my .i3/config, so … lots of things.I map it to the panel menu that most DEs still include. Unless you’re Gnome, in which case you may as well use a joy stick to navigate that GUI.
meta and ctrl switched, because if there’s something apple did right it’s using the thumb as modifier key for copy/paste/etc instead of pinkie finger which is far FAR less able to deal with repeat strain
but i also type programmers dvorak because i got pretty horrible wrist pain at one point so anything to stop me damaging my wrists :p
I used to have bunch of key maps, now it’s just: tap it to pull up the start menu and type software I want to open, and meta + space to change language input on my keyboard.
I guess pretty much it.
Bazzite KDE default seems fine for me.
I use my context menu key as the chording key to control any keyboard macro profiles, so that I can terminate, reload, summon for editing or summon a help file as needed.
I have lots of shortcuts bound to it except I never press it because I have the caps lock key mapped to the same keycode and that’s easier to press
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
The “Windows” key is just called “Meta” (Edit: or more commonly “Super”) key in Linux. It’s used for hotkeys, especially stuff that has to do with window management. I also set a simple press on it without other keys, which would open up “krunner” (to search or run apps).
KDE mostly calls it Meta, GNOME calls it “Super”.
Only GNOME thinks windows is super…
Right, I completely forgot about “Super”. It might even be the more common term.
AFAIK, only KDE calls it Meta, everything else tends to use Super.
I’ve also seen GUI used (e.g. by QMK)
It’s for window management related hotkeys. Obviously. All about windows. With a lowercase “w”.
To open the App Menu, and for a mod key, same as in Windows
The default for Gnome. It’s a really useful app switcher.
Came here to say this. Basically, the same way it’s used in Windows. I hit the key, type a few characters and I launch the app I seek.
Exactly. I love Gnome for this.
