Description of problem: I installed RHEL4b1 on a workstation without a mouse. The system booted straight into X when finished with firstboot. (I wasn't intending on using X on this machine, but I do like to use "Everything" installs.) Once Gnome was started, I hit the Windows key on my keyboard, and the Gnome equivalent to Window's Start Menu did not come up as I expected. Please add a default keybinding so that the Start menu comes up when the Windows button is pressed. Thank you. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-panel-2.7.92.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fresh "everything" install (probably not necessary; at least gnome) 2. Unplug any mice you may have 3. Log in through GDM 4. Hit the Windows Key on your keyboard Actual Results: Absolutely nothing. Expected Results: The Start Menu (with the Shadowman icon) should have come up.
Keybinding for the main menu is Alt-F1, and defined in metacity. To change it for yourself, go to Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts and change the "Show the panel menu" keybinding. (Personally, I always change it to Ctrl-Esc :-)
Hah, I tried changing it via the keyboard (thanks for telling me what the accelerator IS, even if the default still doesn't make sense to me) and I can't change the key using the keyboard shortcuts application. It requires _clicking_ on the line in question, but without a mouse, that's a little difficult. I would expect <enter> to work, but it doesn't appear to. (Furthermore, scrolling through the list with keyboard arrows causes the list to act oddly -- entries further down will overwrite the 'current' entry when scrolling down, entries higher up will overwrite the current entry when scrolling up. It happens once the display had to scroll outside its window.)
Bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157824 tracks discussion of the default binding for this. There are arcane technical reasons why it's hard to implement a binding to only a modifier key such as the Windows key though. It would also be hard to bind to just shift/control/etc.