[EN] Gnome Shell 3.8 "super" key doesn't bring up the overview

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I have a freshly installed and upgraded 64 bit Siduction Gnome system.  I'm still kicking the tires a bit, and for the most part things are pretty great.  :-)  But, the super key, which should bring up the Gnome Shell overview, does nothing. 

I have tried various solutions that are posted at various forums for this problem (found via google), but I cannot find a solution that works, and I'm not really sure where to head with troubleshooting.

I have had no problem with Gnome 3.8 or 3.10 on Ubuntu, openSUSE, Arch...

So I'm hoping this is a simple config issue.  :-)

Is anyone else seeing anything similar, or have a suggestion?  Thanks!

[towo]

cat /etc/default/keyboard

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Thanks!  That got me part of the way there - but I'm not 100% sure it's progress.

So, here is how it was set -

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# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:lwin"

BACKSPACE="guess"
Below is the same file from an ubuntu-gnome box at my work (different hardware), which is also the same as the contents of that file on Ubuntu running on this same laptop as Siduction.

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

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XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""
So I backed up the "bad" one, and changed /etc/default/keyboard to be the same as the one above.

I can now set my super key to open the overview using the dialog shown below (I'm 99% sure I tried this with the old file in place - and it completely ignored my attempts, but will swap them back and check to be sure).  But as you can see, it doesn't regard it as my super key.  It regards it as "multikey".

So - I'm still not sure why this is so, plus I can't use any other "super + x" shortcuts unless I go through and change super to multikey everyplace...

[towo]

XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:lwin"
lwin in normal is the super key
In your setup, the key is compose, so change compose to another key!

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I don't want or need a compose key at all actually.  :-)

But even with that line entirely removed, it still does not recognize my lwin key as super...

[towo]

You should realy read some docu before making changes without any clue.
You have to do dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration and there you choose another key for compose.
You have to restart X after that change.

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Ah thank you!  Will give this a shot later.

I have been researching on the side, just apparently not very well.  :-)

[joji]

cat /etc/default/keyboard

Would like to have a workable Super Key for lxde openbox lxde-rc.xml menu. (lxde-amd64-201312310333)
You assign in that  lxde-rc.xml file  the keybinding "W-e" to PCManFM. As you write later (and I agree)  : lwin  normally is the super key. But this is not the case here since " "XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:lwin" " Which means I guess that lwin is the compose key. To which key did you assign the super key?


And more important : is there a way to set lwin as superkey without restarting X? Which is the simplest way to have  lwin as superkey?


Thank you for attention.

[towo]

And more important : is there a way to set lwin as superkey without restarting X? Which is the simplest way to have  lwin as superkey?

dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change

[joji]

And more important : is there a way to set lwin as superkey without restarting X? Which is the simplest way to have  lwin as superkey?

dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change

Just to say : thank you very much.
Problem solved!

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And more important : is there a way to set lwin as superkey without restarting X? Which is the simplest way to have  lwin as superkey?

dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change

Just to say : thank you very much.
Problem solved!

I had the same problem and tried all the solutions shown here, but to no avail.
My solution was to edit org.gnome.desktop.input-sources.xkb-options in dconf-editor.
compose:lwin was fixed here no matter what I changed else were