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Dannello · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 9 Location: St. Cloud, MN (USA)

I have a netbook, and currently the windows key does nothing, but I was wondering if there was a configuration to map that key to open the "start menu" (the puppy icon Menu button in the lower left corner of the screen) in puppy 4.3.1?

racepres · Posted: Wed 10 Mar 2010, 16:36 Post subject:

The menu is already "mapped" to the right click. But if you wanted to map the button to something like "default browser" or such, I think it has been addressed... just can't remember where???
Use this
http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html
and try "map buttons" or some such!!
HTH
RP

abushcrafter · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 1447 Location: England

I will post so info in the next day or 2...

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1605 Location: South Australia

If you have an application on the desktop you can use the windows key combination to open the application. I use Windows key + E to open Rox and Windows key + D for a terminal window.

Right click on the icon>edit>hyperkey I think it's called.

This does not work with Xvesa though, only Xorg.

Dannello · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 9 Location: St. Cloud, MN (USA)

thank you guys for your help, using that search engine I found this article: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=21288&start=30

Funny regular google didn't get it.

So long story short, I updated /.jwm/jwmrc-personal by adding the line:

<Key keycode="115">root:3</Key>

(xev revealed that on my keyboard, the windows key had no lookup string, hence the keycode).