Using Windows Key in Fluxbox

It's easy to add Windows-specific key to Fluxbox. All you have to do is as follows:

1. Find out how Xorg server recognizes the key. You can use xev for this. You can run xev from xterm or other terminal and observe the name of the specific-key shown in xev log. For example, the Windows key in my laptop is recognized as Super_L by Xorg.
2. Add the key to ~/.fluxbox/keys file. 

Let me give you an example. Let's add Windows key (Super_L) to my Fluxbox keys configuration file and let the key invokes Fluxbox "root" menu when pressed. This is the snippet from ~/.fluxbox/keys file for this function to work.

#  Windows Key -- show root menu
Super_L :RootMenu

That's it. That's all you need to make Windows key to work as you expected (analog to how the Windows key work in Windows).

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