[PLUG-TALK] What the heck is a super key?

John Jason Jordan johnxj at gmx.com
Sun Oct 18 03:52:39 UTC 2020


On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 19:24:22 -0700
Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> dijo:

>On Sat, Oct 17, 2020, 19:02 wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 5:02 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com>
>> wrote:
>> > 2) If this ever happens again, what is a keyboard shortcut to
>> > unmaximize a window, hopefully not requiring a super key?

>> Try F11

>I use Esc or 'f' to get out of full screen. You should be able to get
>to one of the tty by Ctrl+Alt+F1-5 then login and kill the browser in
>text mode.

I tried Esc, but it did nothing. As for getting to the console, it's
Ctrl-Alt-F2-F5 in Ubuntuland, but it didn't occur to me at the time.
It's hard to think when you're seriously frustrated, as I was. For the
future I'll try to remember F11.

Thanks to all for the suggestions!



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