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A Super key, located between the Control key and the Alt key, on an ISO style PC keyboard. Super key ( ) is an alternative name for what is commonly labelled as the Windows key [1] or Command key [2] on modern keyboards, typically bound and handled as such by Linux and BSD operating systems and software today.
Historically, the addition of two Windows keys and a menu key marked the change from the 101/102-key to 104/105-key layout for PC keyboards. [2] Compared to the former layout, a Windows key was placed between the left Ctrl and the left Alt and another Windows key and the menu key were placed between the right Alt (or AltGr) and the right Ctrl key.
The space-cadet keyboard added the Super key outside Meta, and the Hyper key outside that. All these keys produced shortcuts (2 4-1 of them for every letter), but the Control ones were easiest to type and most popular, and the Meta ones second-easiest and thus second most popular.
Place computer into sleep/standby mode Windows 10: ⊞ Win+x > u > s. Windows 7: ⊞ Win+→+→+↵ Enter. Sleep (available on some keyboards) ⌥ Opt+⌘ Cmd+Eject: Sleep (available on some keyboards, configurable in Control Panel Power Options Advanced tab dialog box) Shut down computer Windows 10: ⊞ Win+x > u > u: Ctrl+⌥ Opt+⌘ Cmd+Eject
Super key may refer to: Super key (keyboard button), modifier key on keyboards; Superkey, database relation This page was last edited on 14 ...
Some non-English language keyboards have special keys to produce accented modifications of the standard Latin-letter keys. In fact, the standard British keyboard layout includes an accent key on the top-left corner to produce àèìòù, although this is a two step procedure, with the user pressing the accent key, releasing, then pressing the letter key.
PC keyboards designed for non-English use included other methods of inserting these characters, such as national keyboard layouts, the AltGr key or dead keys, but the Alt key was the only method of inserting some characters, and the only method that was the same on all machines, so it remained very popular.
Alt+F4 closes the current window (or shuts down the computer if the desktop is in the foreground) on most windowing systems. Alt+⇧ Shift switches between language layouts. Alt+Tab ↹ switches between the currently opened windows on most windowing systems, often referred to as alt-tabbing.