Not sure if this is the right subforum but it IS the XFCE environment that I’m using so it’s starting here until some admin moves it if need be. I had the sticky keys thing disabled from the get go but for whatever reason when I press the key to open my start menu I get a notification that sticky keys was enabled. I tried looking through all the UIs XFCE offers for configuring hotkeys but none mentioned super by itself, let alone it triggering sticky keys. I ended up enabling the feature just so I could disable it by pressing 2 keys at once (such as ctrl+a). That had the undesirable side effect of preventing super from opening my start menu until I disable sticky keys. Anyone able to help?
It is commonly referred to as the Meta Key in GNU/Linux. Perhaps you were overlooking that?
the UIs were referring to it as the super key for other commands I setup so taht’s what I expected elsewhere, still I’ll have a look for meta too
edit: nope, natta. every UI I found shortcuts/hotkeys in has only mentioned the key as “super” and not one has super by itself assigned to anything. what config files are there that may have it?
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This is even bigger than Linux.. All of UNIX.. All PCs.. All computers in history! (Post punch cards.)
I guess it depends which ecosystem you come from. The Windows side kind of made that a standard PC keyboard key, but why they called it Super, I have no idea.
In my attempt at historical accuracy that pre-dates me..
Most UNIX systems have generally always used the term Meta, this is known.
Even before I knew.. My first SunOS SPARC workstation, from almost 4 decades ago, had a ◆ key. But we said “meta”! I had never heard of Super or Hyper until years later.
You can search it yourself, basically the first keyboards. There are countless sources circling back to MIT Lisp machines, with those same 4 modifier keys on the bottom row, and their order. It was the order it was on the keyboard, and in the documentation.
- This was key:Ctrl → Meta → Super → Hyper
- Then the other row had:Shift (Obviously!) Then other weird ones, like Top or Frontand more
And X11 and wayland both have codes for Meta, Super, and Hyper!
So calling it Super skips a key! (In my useless opinion.)
But I guess it is what ever people call it.
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How about ULK - Ugly Logo Key?
Jokes aside, yeah I think that’s why they chose Super over involving some other OS name in the vocabulary.
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Place-Penguin-Sticker-Here Key. 
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Pedant point: GNU Emacs considers Alt to be the Meta key, and CtrlX to be the Escape key. 
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How about we just simplify things and call it the logo key? 
Well, I’m a Plasma user, and KDE calls it the Meta key, so that’s what I’m used to calling it myself. 