Annoying win key problem

[Kevin Sigl]

On 4/24/06, Marcelo Magno T Sales <marcelo.sales at sefaz.pe.gov.br> wrote:
> Hi, folks
>
> There's a problem with the win key in FC5 which is annoying me since I
> migrated from FC4. In Fedora's KDE 3.5.1 and later in kde-redhat's KDE
> 3.5.2, when I logon, the win key doesn't work as it should.
> When I press win+C, for example, it looks like these keys are "sensed"
> by KDE as two separeted keypresses instead of one "combo" keypress. I
> can see this when I try to configure a new shortcut using the win key.
> When I press it, the shortcut field shows "win+", but when I press
> the next key (while holding win), the shortcut field shows only the
> second key pressed and not the combination win+key.
> Then I open Regional Settings in Control Center and undo and redo my
> keyboard configuration several times until it starts to work again.
> It remains working as far as I don't log out. After the next log in,
> the win key may or may not work, apparently randomically.
> This strange behavior didn't happen in FC4 with KDE 3.5.1 and below.
> I use a brazilian ABNT2 keyboard, don't know if this problem occurs
> with others keyboard layouts.
> I believe the problem is not in KDE, since it didn't happen in FC4
> with the same KDE 3.5.1. However, the win key work after I change and
> unchange settings in Control Center...
> Any clue about why is this happening, or at least where I can start
> researching this? Don't know where the problem may be and I have
> three FC5 machines with the same behavior.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcelo
>
Found this http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2002/10/msg00340.html

Add this to your xorg.conf Keyboard

Option    "XkbOptions"    "altwin:meta_win"