Raspberry Pi official keyboard raspberry key

[kaczy18]

Hi! What's for raspberry icon key (between left Fn and Alt keys) on official keyboard?

[trejan]

Equivalent to the Windows key on a regular PC keyboard.

[kaczy18]

Yes, I guessed that , but what it do in Raspbian? Can I assign some action to it?

[dickon]

Meta, most likely. Window managers often use it.

[trejan]

It is the super key. It is a modifier key like Ctrl and Alt.

$HOME/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml lists these keybinds for the super/Windows key.

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  <keybind key="W-F1">
    <action name="Desktop"><desktop>1</desktop></action>
  </keybind>

  <keybind key="W-F2">
    <action name="Desktop"><desktop>2</desktop></action>
  </keybind>
  
  <keybind key="W-F3">
    <action name="Desktop"><desktop>3</desktop></action>
  </keybind>
  
  <keybind key="W-F4">
    <action name="Desktop"><desktop>4</desktop></action>
  </keybind>
  
  <keybind key="W-d">
    <action name="ToggleShowDesktop"/>
  </keybind>
  
  <keybind key="W-e">
    <action name="Execute">
      <startupnotify>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
        <name>PCManFM</name>
      </startupnotify>
      <command>pcmanfm</command>
    </action>
  </keybind>
  
  <keybind key="W-f">
    <action name="Execute">
      <command>pcmanfm --find-files</command>
      </action>
  </keybind>

  <keybind key="W-r">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>lxpanelctl run</command>
      </action>
  </keybind>

[kaczy18]

Thank you! Maybe I skipped something, but it looks like Raspberry Foundation didn't mention anything about this key, at least in manual from official Desktop Kit.