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I use remmina all the time and this is driving me mad. I can't figure out how to disable the WINKEY key.

When I connect to a remote computer (a Windows computer) from Ubuntu 13.10 & Remmina, when I press E Windows Explorer opens. When I press L the computer locks, D shows the desktop, and so forth. It's as if the WINKEY key is stuck on my keyboard.

I am going crazy having to use the character map. Worse yet, now with the ever-so-awesome Windows 8 start menu, or lack of, I cannot even browse to the character map.

I have to type Character Map. but if anyone uses Windows, you'll know what happens when you hold the WINKEY and start typing c-h-a-r-a-c-t-e-r m-a-p.

How to solve this ?

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  • A quick double-tap of the WINKEY works for me! Thanks @Rmano!
    – 00fruX
    Feb 14, 2014 at 19:59

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Comment moved to the answer because it seems to work.

Remmina 0.99.9 works ok for me, but I use it to connect to Linux via VNC only.

There is a bug that can be related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/remmina/+bug/993432 --- is this your problem?

In that bug, one user says that clicking two times WINKEY rapidly solves the problem (open and close windows menu).

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  • It works for me, ubuntu 15.05 however; I want to shift windows around super-left, super-right, to shift windows. This is particularly useful as the machine I connect to has two monitors and this lets me shift out of window screen back on screen (the system remembers where the windows was last used and restores it to that spot, which is typically off screen).
    – Quaternion
    Sep 15, 2015 at 17:07

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