[Gllug] Grr... new keyboard

- Tethys tethys at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 15:16:33 UTC 2009


On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Harry Rickards <hrickards at l33tmyst.com> wrote:

> Want I want to know is why the windows key is commonly referred to as
> the super key by some Linux distros...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifier_key

>From memory, the X11 modifier names (super and hyper at least) were
inherited from LISP machines.

And please don't top post.

Tet

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