Substituting left super key for shell overlay.

asked 2015-05-27 22:42:03 -0600

I have a professional keyboard but it is gaming focused. It has no left super key and it is frustrating to bring up the shell overlay, because I have to go to the top right corner with my mouse. I looked around in the keyboard settings but that key doesn't seem to be in there. So I can't figure out how to change it. I am hoping there is some kind of magic I can do in the shell to change this.

I want to substitute the key with the a combo of the left-alt, left-shift, and Z. If that is not possible the right super key is fine. I might be using the wrong keyboard layout.

I am running Gnome 3.14 on Fedora 21.

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answered 2015-05-28 06:14:23 -0600

pschindl
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It can be set in settings->keyboard->Shortcuts->System->Show overview. Or you can use Alt+F1 by default.

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Alt-F1 just brings up the applications menu, because I have an extension for it. It doesn't seem to bring up the overlay.

johntate ( 2015-05-29 04:43:13 -0600 )edit

Thanks for helping me find the shortcut.

johntate ( 2015-05-29 04:45:00 -0600 )edit

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answered 2015-05-28 09:15:12 -0600

AnEagle

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updated 2015-05-28 10:45:55 -0600

There is no magic needed. At first install tools for detail configuring gnome.

sudo yum install -y dconf-editor

Then start it and go to /org/gnome/mutter. Here you need an overlay-key. As in picture below: image description

And you can set overlay-key to any key you want. I also tried to set set this value with a key combo, such as Super_L+Alt_L, but it doesn't work. So you should use only the one key.

For overlay shortcut in dconf go to /org/gnome/shell/keybindings and setup overlay-key. See picture below: image description

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