On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 07:09:36 -0500
Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 10:25 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net>
wrote:
> On 9/1/21 8:40 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > At some point my Windows (Super) key stopped working.
> >
> > Trying the following doesn't produce any output when the super
> > key is pressed:
> I don't see what you're trying to test here. That
keyboard is
> going to be filtered. I actually can't get any output from that
> test when I try it, regardless of what keys. If you want to see if
> the keyboard is actually producing codes, then you need to use
> "evtest" instead. gets you events at the kernel level.
>
Thanks, I was just trying whatever I found googling the problem. I
did get output from every other key I tried other than Super.
Just tried evtest and all the keys I tried worked except for Super.
So the symptoms are:
Only the Super key doesn't work on your system, even at the kernel
level.
The Super key works on windows.
I would conclude it is not the keyboard, but that you have something
set that is capturing that key in linux. Do you perhaps have it set as
a dead key in your keyboard mapping? That is, you press that key and
then press two other keys to get a special character. For instance, on
my system pressing my dead key, the windows menu key, and then t and m
gives the ™ symbol.