That would be convenient. Microsoft would have had to rename the ⊞ key then lol.

magarnicle · 2025-10-03T02:53:31 1759460011

WynnDOS

hackernewds · 2025-10-03T03:21:35 1759461695

Maybe you didn't realize until now that it is indeed Wynn-DOS as in W-Disk Operating System

Ekshef · 2025-10-03T00:19:17 1759450757

Why, isn't that just called 'Super' key?

SllX · 2025-10-03T10:42:59 1759488179

Why would it be? It’s the Windows key, not Microsoft’s rebadge of the Super key.

awesome_dude · 2025-10-03T02:06:54 1759457214

I like Apple's thinking - Option key

Super key could arguably apply to the shift keys, because you are using a super set of letters (or am I reaching too far)

lmm · 2025-10-03T07:30:24 1759476624

> you are using a super set of letters (or am I reaching too far)

You're not though. The original letters are not available, so uppercase is not a superset of lowercase. (Unless you're just stating your opinion that the set of uppercase letters happens to be super)

eucyclos · 2025-10-03T03:07:58 1759460878

shift could be the metakey? Maybe too many syllables...

Agentlien · 2025-10-03T05:38:45 1759469925

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_key

But, the meta key already exists and on Windows it is the Windows key. We're going around in circles.

1718627440 · 2025-10-03T11:32:03 1759491123

I thought the Meta key is labeled "Alt" in Windows(-like) keyboards.

Agentlien · 2025-10-03T17:44:50 1759513490

I always get confused around this and it seems to depend on specific keyboard and software. It seems to mostly be Alt, sometimes Alt Gr, and sometimes the Windows key. But I do remember using Meta to mean Alt when I was setting things up in Ubuntu maybe ten years ago.

1718627440 · 2025-10-03T18:12:37 1759515157

I think Super and Meta are the vendor independent terms.

    Ctrl             - Ctrl    - Ctrl
    Super            - Windows - Command
    Left/Right Super - ??      - Open/Close Apple
    Left Meta        - Alt     - Option
    Right Meta       - Alt Gr  - Right Option?

Anybody able to fill the gaps?

Approaching an Apple keyboard for the first time, I naively thought Command would be Ctrl and was quite confused, since there also is Ctrl. But once you start a terminal it became quite clear that this was not the case. This is quite neat, it directly solves the SIGINT,SIGSTOP / Copy, Ctrl-D? confusion. Also having these operation as OS command means that all programs support them.