# Super key (Win) stopped working

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 7, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415 "2019-09-07T14:52:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![ruwe](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/ruwe/32/2155_2.png) [@ruwe](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/ruwe)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415/1 "2019-09-07T14:52:42Z")

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Not sure if I messed something up, or how, but the Super-key stopped working altogether.

Like Super + S does not open the Window Shuffler anymore.

In the deconf-editor, the default value for the overlay-key in gome/mutter is set to “Super\_L”.

Any idea of how to solve this?

I have read about a few solutions on the net, but they are either old, or look adventurous, and I am afraid to mess things up even more.

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415/2 "2019-09-07T15:09:23Z")

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Does any custom keyboard shortcut work? I.e a keyboard shortcut you create yourself?

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**Author:** ![ruwe](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/ruwe/32/2155_2.png) [@ruwe](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/ruwe)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415/3 "2019-09-07T15:15:36Z")

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Tried setting a short-cut, but the dialog box won’t accept any combination with Super …

I am on a Dell Laptop. This only happened over the last couple of days.

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 10:39am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415/4 "2019-09-08T10:39:04Z")

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Is this the same with a live iso? If it is the same then it sounds like a hardware fault

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**Author:** ![FloWzoW](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/flowzow/32/1587_2.png) [@FloWzoW](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/FloWzoW)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 11:12am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415/5 "2019-09-08T11:12:26Z")

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I have the same problem, super-key (windows-key on keyboard) is not working anymore ☹

im having a z97 intel-powered desktop system

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415/6 "2019-09-08T11:31:26Z")

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hmm - can you tell me please what version of Ubuntu Budgie are you using. Have you got any PPA’s installed?

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**Author:** ![FloWzoW](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/flowzow/32/1587_2.png) [@FloWzoW](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/FloWzoW)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415/7 "2019-09-08T11:55:50Z")

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```auto
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic

```

```auto
budgie-desktop --version
budgie-desktop 10.5
Copyright © 2014-2019 Budgie Desktop Developers

```

i have only a winehq ppa installed:

```auto
sudo apt-get update
[sudo] Passwort für flozi: 
OK:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntubudgie/backports/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Holen:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88,7 kB]  
OK:3 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                      
Holen:4 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88,7 kB] 
OK:5 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu bionic InRelease                 
Holen:6 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74,6 kB]
Holen:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [22,7 kB]
Holen:8 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [285 kB]
Holen:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main DEP-11 48x48 Icons [10,4 kB]
Holen:10 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [31,7 kB]
Holen:11 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main DEP-11 48x48 Icons [70,9 kB]
Holen:12 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [140 kB]
Holen:13 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [42,0 kB]
Holen:14 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [253 kB]
Holen:15 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/universe DEP-11 48x48 Icons [16,4 kB]
Holen:16 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe DEP-11 48x48 Icons [208 kB]
Holen:17 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [457 kB]
Holen:18 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [108 kB]
Holen:19 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2.464 B]
Holen:20 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [7.920 B]
Holen:21 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2.464 B]
Es wurden 1.911 kB in 3 s geholt (684 kB/s).  
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig

```

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415/8 "2019-09-08T11:56:43Z")

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thanks. Can you also test a live ISO session - does the super key work in that?

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**Author:** ![ruwe](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/ruwe/32/2155_2.png) [@ruwe](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/ruwe)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415/9 "2019-09-08T12:23:14Z")

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These are my PPAs:

```
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntudisco-backports/main
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntudisco-backports/universe
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntudisco/main
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntudisco/multiverse
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntudisco-security/main
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntudisco-security/multiverse
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntudisco-security/universe
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntudisco/universe
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntudisco-updates/main
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntudisco-updates/multiverse
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntudisco-updates/universe
http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/debstable/main
http://ppa.launchpad.net/oguzhaninan/stacer/ubuntudisco/main
http://ppa.launchpad.net/tista/plata-theme/ubuntudisco/main
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntubudgie/backports/ubuntudisco/main
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntubudgie-dev/desktop-icons/ubuntudisco/main
http://ppa.launchpad.net/vala-team/ppa/ubuntudisco/main
https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.orgbionic/main
http://shop.softmaker.com/repo/aptwheezy/non-free

```

I don’t have a functioning USB stick today. Hopefully @FloWzoW can help.

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 12:27pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415/10 "2019-09-08T12:27:02Z")

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k - thanks. There has been no changes by the team on 19.04 for quite a long time. So its spooky that both 19.04 and 18.04.3 are reporting issues.

I’ve tested 18.04/19.04 and 19.10 all with latest updates and don’t have any issues. So this is going to be a difficult one to diagnose.

First steps is to confirm that a known ISO that we know worked is still working.

After that check by creating another account and logging in with that. That will test if the issue is account specific rather that system wide

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**Author:** ![FloWzoW](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/flowzow/32/1587_2.png) [@FloWzoW](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/FloWzoW)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415/11 "2019-09-08T15:11:58Z")

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Hey guys,  
i booted up from my ubuntu budgie 18.04 installation usb media.  
The key does not work there either.

Ive used the key in the past a few times, i dont know why its broken now ☹

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/super-key-win-stopped-working/2415/12 "2019-09-08T15:16:24Z")

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ok - that definitely sounds like a hardware issue I’m afraid. Blow air under the key - often its dirt stuck under the key.