[Solved] Shortcut keys woes ...

[DanielR]

I'm running LMDE2 64-bit Mate and keep trying in vain to set the "Windows-Key" + E to open Caja. The same combination works perfectly well on Mint 13 and Mint 17.3 (on the same computer/laptop). Whenever I press the "Windows-Key" the panels main menu pops up. I have already disabled "show the panel's main menu" in the keyboard short-cut program and set up a custom command to open caja and assigned the desired short-cut to it.

Is there any way to disable the main menu popping up whenever I press the "Windows-Key"?

Any help appreciated.

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~ $ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: nb-8730w Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.8.4) 
           Desktop: MATE 1.16.1 (Gtk 3.14.5+4) Distro: LinuxMint 2 betsy 
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP EliteBook 8730w v: F.13
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 30EC v: KBC Version 91.25
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: 68PAD Ver. F.13 date: 12/03/2010
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo P8600 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 9575 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1600 MHz 2: 800 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA G94GLM [Quadro FX 2700M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1200@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV94
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller 
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.16.0-4-amd64
Network:   Card-1: Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300
           driver: iwlwifi v: in-tree: bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Intel 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection
           driver: e1000e v: 2.3.2-k port: 80e0 bus-ID: 00:19.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2000.4GB (56.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD10JPLX size: 1000.2GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: My_Passport_071A size: 500.1GB
           ID-3: USB /dev/sdc model: My_Book size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 172G used: 6.2G (4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
           ID-2: /home size: 742G used: 252G (36%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.30GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 31.0C mobo: 30.0C gpu: 41.0 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 187 Uptime: 1:14 Memory: 678.0/3930.3MB 
           Init: SysVinit runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.9.2 
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301) inxi: 2.1.28 

[DanielR]

Well, the culprit was in the main menu preferences, where there was a separate short-cut key definition for opening the menu and that short-cut was set to "Super-Key" aka the "Windows-Key". After changing this short-cut to some other key combination, the "Super Key" was "free" again to be used for other short-cut key combinations. Funny though, this pre-set short-cut was not present in Mint 13 Mate nor in Mint 17.3 Mate (well at least I can't recollect having to modify the short-cut in the mint menu preferences to properly configure my desired short-cuts).