Re: [opensuse] Meta character

Am Sonntag, 10. August 2008 03:40:26 schrieb Henare Degan:
It depends a bit on your keyboard layout, but usually, "meta" is the
"alt" key on your keyboard

Usually "meta" is the "Windows"/"Start" key and I think it's the
"Apple" key on an Apple keyboard. This is why it's called "meta", I
never thought it was a great name, anyone want to come up with a
better name? :)

Yeah, that was my first thought too.

Alt should be named Alt.
Meta (and I saw it at least once reffered as "Super")-key is the key with the
windows logo/tux penguin/Apple thingi.

Greetings
Michael

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