Super (win) button is not working

[oybek]

Hello Guys!

I've experienced weird problem today, before this everything was fine. My laptop is `asus tuf gaming f15`

Today the win button stopped working, I've plugged external keyboard and launched xev

Here is the output I get when pressing win (super) key on external keyboard:

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KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
    root 0x7c7, subw 0x0, time 264975, (-539,646), root:(424,670),
    state 0x40, keycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

And here is the output I get when pressing win (super) key on laptop's keyboard:

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KeyRelease event, serial 43, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
    root 0x7c7, subw 0x0, time 431768, (-2,715), root:(961,739),
    state 0x0, keycode 248 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

I guess the keycode mapping got autochanged by system when I plugged usb drive to keyboard usb slot, may be, not sure,
But as I got atm I have to somehow remap win key to Super_L on system, how to achieve it?

[vimes666]

If you did not install any updates this morning I would say it is a hardware error.
Either the key is malfunctioning or the internal keyboard connector has a bad connection.

[oybek]

But xev is showing concrete keycode (248) everytime I press the win button on laptop,
how it is possible if it is the hardware problem?