Subject: bug#44456: Windows10 doesn't allow either windows keys as hyper?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 15:35:03 +0200

tags 44456 notabug
thanks

> From: Steve Greenburg <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 21:44:37 +0000
> 
> Apparently this is a known issue for a while. I'm on 27.1 right now on windows and the following code allows
> me to use the menu key as hyper:
> 
> (setq w32-pass-apps-to-system nil)
> (setq w32-apps-modifier 'hyper)
> 
> However neither of the lwindows or rwindows versions work.
> 
> (setq w32-pass-rwindows-to-system nil)
> (setq w32-rwindows-modifier 'hyper)

On Windows 10 you must also use w32-register-hot-key, or the above
won't work.  Read all about this in the node "Windows Keyboard" of the
Emacs user manual, which also shows a couple of examples.

There's no bug here, AFAICT.