No way to bind Super/Windows/Mod4.

[Azelphur]

In the keyboard preferences dialog, you cannot bind Super/Windows/Mod4 on it's own. You must specify a modifier. This stops users from binding Super to open the applications menu, or my acer aspire one's home key from showing the home menu on netbook remix.

[Textureglitch (textureglitch)]

I had this problem too on my EEE 901 laptop with 9.10 Karmic Koala Ubuntu Netbook Remix; none of the old solutions I could find seem to work anymore.
However, I found a workaround here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-create-keyboard-shortcuts-in-gnome/

Run 'gconf-editor' in a terminal.
Go to apps->metacity->global_keybindings
Find the operation you want and just type "Super_L" (without the quotes) in the value field. Log out and log in again.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with a config change. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.

[Azelphur (azelphur)]

This bug is not fixed, the last poster did not say it is fixed. He merely found a work around.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Somebody having the issue should send the bug to GNOME

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

What shell are you using? In Unity, super is reserved and it is a known problem that Compiz and Gnome Control center does not know about it ( bug 774514 and bug 898087 ). Under Gnome session Fallback, I can assign Super to some action.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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