keyboard
 

Hello
Does a keyboard exists that has special linux shortcuts, or at least without those anoying window keys?
If so, where can i find such thing, i already searched the internet without result.
Thanx Hylke

Keyboards don't exactly have anything but signals. How those are mapped is the thing. Sometimes you can assign actions through an app or a window manager/desktop environment. Sometimes you might want to look into xmodmap to reassign keys. As far as the hardware, I don't know about Linux-specific keyboards (or even what that'd mean, exactly) but they make all kinds of keyboards.

What specifically about the Windows keys is the problem? I like 'em because they tend not to be used by anything else, so I can use them for whatever I want. :)

You could search ebay for the old IBM PS 2 series. These keyboards still exist, and still work (optomechanical) but weigh about 4 pounds.

Good luck, and happy hunting. I used to have one, but I got rid of it.

I've read the xmodmap manual page, but i don't really understand how i can run a program by pressing the windows key.

Wait. You want to run a program by hitting the Windows key? Usually the Win key is a modifier. Like I have vim bound to a Win+E V keychain. Which leads to the issue of the window manager. I'm using pek and so pek just understands that as 'Mod4+E V', no special configuration required. I'm no expert in any of this but maybe if you specify your window manager/desktop environment and exactly what keys you want to perform what actions someone can help. Xmodmap (again, no expert) is more for assigning weird 'multimedia' keys or for reassigning standard keys, like capslock and escape.

I use kde, and want by hitting one of the both keys it starts xmule.
Or the left xmule and the right kmess.

Hm. I don't really know anything about KDE. I do seem to recall a keyboard configuration thing in that control panel/settings thing. 'Mod4' can sometimes be 'Super_L' and 'Super_R' so you could assign them separately. However, KDE may require that it be treated as a modifier rather than a 'standalone' key. Anyway - best I can suggest is to go to that configurator thing and see what you can come up with or wait for someone who uses KDE to help out.

-- Just as an experiment, I blew out my keys file and assigned an app to 'Mod4' alone and it didn't work but assigning one each to 'Super_L' and 'Super_R' did work. So it should be doable and it's probably through that GUI widget in KDE. Good luck.

thank you for your reply, i'il try it out.

EDIT:
I don't have an application called mod4.
Im using slackware 10.0 by the way.

Nah, mod4's not an application - just how the win key is referred to sometimes *by* applications. I'm surprised a KDE person hasn't posted up - I'm pretty sure it's a simple setting through the GUI - I just don't know/remember where precisely it is.

Ok thanks