Super key (keyboard button)

A Super key, located between the Control key and the Alt key, on an ISO style PC keyboard

The Super key (❖ Super)[1] is an alternative name for what is commonly labelled as the Windows key[2] or Command key[3] on modern computer keyboards, typically bound and handled as such by Linux and BSD operating systems and software today.

The Super key was originally a modifier key on a keyboard designed for Lisp machines at MIT.

  1. ^ Linux: Keyboard Layout, Keymapping, Keybinding, Tools ⌨ at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 July 2013)
  2. ^ "Ubuntu using Windows key (Super key) to Launch Gnome Main Menu". ubuntuguide.net. 13 March 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  3. ^ "What is the Super key?". help.ubuntu.com. Retrieved 23 September 2019.

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