Use Windows Start Menu Button To Run Menus In Ubuntu

For Ubuntu users, we don't have Microsoft's "Start Menu" (which is crap anyway compared to this), in return we have three drop-down menus.

One for applications like games, office editers, internet applications, and so on.

One for the places of the hard drive like Home, Documents, Pictures etc directories, Computer (My Computer more or less), and Mount OS, (YEAH! Windows ain't got that! In your face!!) and others.

One for the system like settings for just about everything, administration for other stuff, and basically this is the system/computer settings drop-down menu.

Well it's quite simple to apply this setting though and this tutorial can and/or will show you how!

1. Go to the System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts menu item:

2. Scroll down until you see the "Show the panel menu" item.

3. Click in the Shortcut column, and when it changes to "New Shortcut", hit the Windows Key.

4. Click the close button. You're done!

After doing these four simple steps, each time you press the Windows button the Applications menu will drop down. Using the left and right arrow keys will change the menu to the corresponding menu, and also and quite obviously up and down will change the highlight to the options inside the drop-down menu.


Oh. And to save any confusion Ubuntu calls the Windows Start Menu button "Super L". So when you go pressing this button in the Shortcuts menu, don't go expecting Windows Button or anything.