Comment 8 for bug 898184

@tim-abell: You almost had it...

1. Install python-keybinder (sudo apt-get install python-keybinder)
2. Apply the attached patch to mintMenu.py (sudo patch /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py mintMenu.py.patch)
3. Log out and back in
4. Press <Control>Super_L
5. :-)

Explanation: As a comment in mintMenu.py suggests, the developer tried to avoid unnecessary dependencies (python-keybinder was part of deskbar-applet and didn't exist as a standalone package back then) and therefore placed the keybinder code directly into the mintMenu folder. Later, it somehow got removed and the maintainers forgot to fix the code and also to add the new "python-keybinder"-dependency to the package info.