I hope this is the right forum for this…
I did a new install of F36 but find that pressing the Super key or Super + A key doesn’t list the applications. Super + S doesn’t work either.
Is there a way to reinstall the gnome portion to try to fix this? Or, does anyone have any ideas?
Welcome to the forum!
Did you manually remove or redefine those shortcuts? I am asking because it’s working fine on my F36 and F37beta installs.
You may want to try resetting all shortcuts: Settings → Keyboard → View and Customize: there is a button “Reset All…”
No, I just did the installation and booted into the system.
I tried what you suggested with the same result.
Can you please provide some more information? What install media did you use, for example? The output of this command would be very useful: sudo fpaste --sysinfo --printonly.
My first thought would be that the super key is mapped to something else (or is not working at all). What keyboard are you using (hardware)? What keyboard layout are you using?
My keyboard is a logitech K350 and has the super key on the left between ctrl * alt with the function key in the same location on the left. My keyboard is using the standard US english layout.
As Ankur suggests, tell us the keyboard and layout being used since even the layout can change the key mappings.
Another thing to consider is if Fedora is running on bare metal or in VM. Maybe super key isn’t forwarded correctly to the vm.
Thanks for the help, folks! Here goes:
My keyboard (Microsoft Corp. Natural Keyboard Pro) layout is US.
The command output is:
=== fpaste 0.4.2.0 System Information ===
* OS Release (lsb_release -ds):
"Fedora release 36 (Thirty Six)"
* Kernel (uname -r ; cat /proc/cmdline):
5.19.8-200.fc36.x86_64
BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt6)/vmlinuz-5.19.8-200.fc36.x86_64 root=UUID=805e26f3-98c8-49f2-bc49-80f0f9d09f5c ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet
* Desktop(s) Running (ps -eo comm= | grep -E '(gnome-session|startkde|startactive|xfce.?-session|fluxbox|blackbox|hackedbox|ratpoison|enlightenment|icewm-session|od-session|wmaker|wmx|openbox-lxde|openbox-gnome-session|openbox-kde-session|mwm|e16|fvwm|xmonad|sugar-session|mate-session|lxqt-session|cinnamon|lxdm-session)' ):
gnome-session-b
gnome-session-c
gnome-session-b
* Desktop(s) Installed (ls -m /usr/share/xsessions/ | sed 's/\.desktop//g' ):
gnome-classic, gnome-classic-xorg, gnome,
gnome-xorg
* SELinux Status (sestatus):
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: targeted
Current mode: enforcing
Mode from config file: enforcing
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: allowed
Memory protection checking: actual (secure)
Max kernel policy version: 33
* SELinux Errors (without results: "selinuxenabled && journalctl --since yesterday |grep avc: | grep -Eo comm="[^ ]+" | sort |uniq -c |sort -rn"):
N/A
* CPU Model (grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F: '{print $2}' | uniq -c |
sed -re 's/^ +//' ):
4 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3337U CPU @ 1.80GHz
* 64-bit Support (grep -q ' lm ' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
Yes
* Hardware Virtualization Support (grep -Eq '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
Yes
* Load average (uptime):
13:58:09 up 15:42, 1 user, load average: 2.07, 2.22, 2.25
* Memory usage (free -m):
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7825 4720 172 425 2932 2374
Swap: 7824 3059 4765
* Top 5 CPU hogs (ps axuScnh | awk '$2!=3127268' | sort -rnk3 | head -5):
1000 837586 27.6 0.3 17551316 24560 ? Sl 01:47 202:13 mailspring
1000 2921 14.6 0.6 608512 53832 tty2 Sl+ Sep14 137:58 Xorg
1000 837676 13.8 1.7 25827200 137748 ? SLl 01:47 101:19 Mailspring defa
1000 2879 13.4 0.1 24280 10932 ? Ss Sep14 126:21 systemd
1000 838756 12.7 1.9 38696752 153672 ? SNl 01:48 93:14 rambox
* Top 5 Memory hogs (ps axuScnh | sort -rnk4 | head -5):
1000 749913 1.6 4.0 34486148 323264 ? SNLl 01:26 12:45 brave
0 2501 0.2 3.1 1103340 251620 ? Ssl Sep14 2:04 packagekitd
1000 1721379 1.3 2.7 118291216 217872 ? SNl 07:59 4:45 rambox
1000 3356 0.1 2.6 3080848 211628 ? Sl Sep14 1:23 gnome-software
1000 3129 6.3 2.5 4564348 205204 ? Ssl Sep14 59:37 gnome-shell
* Disk space usage (df -hT):
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 306M 3.6G 8% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 2.0M 1.6G 1% /run
/dev/sda7 btrfs 697G 231G 466G 34% /
/dev/sda7 btrfs 697G 231G 466G 34% /home
tmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 43M 3.8G 2% /tmp
/dev/sda6 ext4 974M 203M 704M 23% /boot
/dev/sda2 vfat 96M 40M 57M 41% /boot/efi
tmpfs tmpfs 783M 300K 783M 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdb1 btrfs 466G 3.9M 464G 1% /btrfs
/dev/sda7 btrfs 697G 231G 466G 34% /run/timeshift/backup
* Block devices (blkid):
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Recovery" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="78E8789DE8785B78" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="b727e3af-f458-4485-9802-01f2bbb675c9"
/dev/sda2: UUID="707A-B021" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition" PARTUUID="564dedfc-28d9-42e6-a6e5-ba63d0a88b03"
/dev/sda4: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="5A0E7E1D0E7DF1FD" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="33f85069-0ee0-489c-a7c3-0699e7d02c9c"
/dev/sda5: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="A2CCEBE0CCEBAD2B" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="4c6d7ab9-b540-4e69-afc9-029cb4a1d375"
/dev/sda6: UUID="dd09b4cf-d943-406d-86b7-6481629977ba" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="78bad4a5-b3b7-4d0c-96c4-3edc7fcda901"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="fedora_localhost-live" UUID="805e26f3-98c8-49f2-bc49-80f0f9d09f5c" UUID_SUB="7005e5fd-5c6e-4135-b59e-18079b53981b" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="btrfs" PARTUUID="7b761185-877c-4bfd-adba-b8f2e2a7bc73"
/dev/zram0: LABEL="zram0" UUID="ed554ff1-0702-4183-93f9-92ac1168fe64" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="backups" UUID="5b286995-7133-4c80-b668-db4a8beaaa27" UUID_SUB="9852e12b-119e-4568-8f5b-b699cf1aaec4" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="btrfs" PARTUUID="01801af5-1b9e-a448-a075-51ccaee9f855"
/dev/sda3: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" PARTUUID="07c766d0-fdbc-4d18-b6ab-b75bbf7219c9"
* PCI devices (lspci -nn):
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller [8086:0154] (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:1e3a] (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1e2d] (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1e20] (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1e10] (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:1e12] (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [8086:1e26] (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation HM76 Express Chipset LPC Controller [8086:1e59] (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:1e03] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SMBus Controller [8086:1e22] (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0036] (rev 01)
* USB devices (lsusb):
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:58c2 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Integrated Webcam HD
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0cf3:0036 Qualcomm Atheros Communications AR9462 Bluetooth
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 18a5:0237 Verbatim, Ltd Portable Harddrive
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0d8c:0134 C-Media Electronics, Inc. TONOR TC30 Audio Device
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 1ea7:0064 SHARKOON Technologies GmbH 2.4GHz Wireless rechargeable vertical mouse [More&Better]
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 045e:001d Microsoft Corp. Natural Keyboard Pro
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0451:1446 Texas Instruments, Inc. TUSB2040/2070 Hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
* DRM Information (journalctl -k -b | grep -o 'kernel:.*drm.*$' | cut -d ' ' -f 2- ):
ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered
[drm] Initialized simpledrm 1.0.0 20200625 for simple-framebuffer.0 on minor 0
simple-framebuffer simple-framebuffer.0: [drm] fb0: simpledrmdrmfb frame buffer device
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20201103 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 1
fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device
i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] fb0: i915drmfb frame buffer device
* Xorg modules (grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | cut -d \" -f 2 | xargs):
* GL Support (glxinfo | grep -E "OpenGL version|OpenGL renderer"):
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
OpenGL version string: 4.2 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.1.7
* Xorg errors (without results: "grep '^\[.*(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | cut -d ':' -f 2- "):
N/A
* Kernel buffer tail (dmesg | tail):
[28688.775777] BTRFS info (device sdb1): using free space tree
[28688.775785] BTRFS info (device sdb1): has skinny extents
[28869.024960] sdb:
[29031.485114] sdb: sdb1
[29040.993716] sdb: sdb1
[29163.946768] BTRFS: device label backups devid 1 transid 6 /dev/sdb1 scanned by mkfs.btrfs (1914189)
[29218.950333] BTRFS info (device sdb1): using free space tree
[29218.950342] BTRFS info (device sdb1): has skinny extents
[29218.950344] BTRFS info (device sdb1): flagging fs with big metadata feature
[29219.024898] BTRFS info (device sdb1): checking UUID tree
* Last few reboots (last -x -n10 reboot runlevel):
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.19.8-200.fc36. Wed Sep 14 22:16 still running
reboot system boot 5.19.8-200.fc36. Wed Sep 14 22:15 still running
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.19.8-200.fc36. Wed Sep 14 16:06 - 22:15 (06:09)
reboot system boot 5.19.8-200.fc36. Wed Sep 14 16:06 - 22:15 (06:09)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.19.8-200.fc36. Tue Sep 13 19:58 - 15:57 (19:59)
reboot system boot 5.19.8-200.fc36. Tue Sep 13 19:58 - 15:57 (19:59)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.19.8-200.fc36. Tue Sep 13 14:52 - 19:58 (05:06)
reboot system boot 5.19.8-200.fc36. Tue Sep 13 14:51 - 19:58 (05:06)
reboot system boot 5.19.8-200.fc36. Tue Sep 13 14:50 - 14:51 (00:00)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.19.8-200.fc36. Tue Sep 13 02:17 - 14:50 (12:32)
wtmp begins Sat Sep 10 21:38:37 2022
* DNF Repositories (dnf repolist):
repo id repo name
brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com_x86_64_ created by dnf config-manager from https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/
copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:emixampp:synology-drive Copr repo for synology-drive owned by emixampp
fedora Fedora 36 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264 Fedora 36 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
fedora-modular Fedora Modular 36 - x86_64
google-chrome google-chrome
phracek-PyCharm Copr repo for PyCharm owned by phracek
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 36 - Free
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 36 - Free - Updates
rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver RPM Fusion for Fedora 36 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver
rpmfusion-nonfree-steam RPM Fusion for Fedora 36 - Nonfree - Steam
updates Fedora 36 - x86_64 - Updates
updates-modular Fedora Modular 36 - x86_64 - Updates
* DNF Extras (dnf -C list extras):
Last metadata expiration check: 2:44:04 ago on Thu 15 Sep 2022 11:14:08 AM MST.
Extra Packages
appimagelauncher.x86_64 2.2.0-travis995~0f91801 @@commandline
mailspring.x86_64 1.10.5-0.1 @@commandline
torguard.x86_64 4.8.13.build.198.2-0 @@commandline
webmin.noarch 2.000-1 @@commandline
* Last 20 packages installed (rpm -qa --nodigest --nosignature --last | head -20):
python3-dropbox-11.34.0-1.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:57 AM MST
libxmlb-0.3.10-1.fc36.x86_64 Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:57 AM MST
libsndfile-1.1.0-4.fc36.x86_64 Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:57 AM MST
libsndfile-1.1.0-4.fc36.i686 Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:57 AM MST
libjcat-0.1.12-1.fc36.x86_64 Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:57 AM MST
libertas-usb8388-firmware-20220815-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:57 AM MST
iwl6050-firmware-41.28.5.1-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:57 AM MST
iwl6000g2b-firmware-18.168.6.1-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:57 AM MST
linux-firmware-20220815-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:56 AM MST
iwl6000g2a-firmware-18.168.6.1-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:56 AM MST
iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:56 AM MST
iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:56 AM MST
iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:56 AM MST
iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:56 AM MST
iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:56 AM MST
iwl3160-firmware-25.30.13.0-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:56 AM MST
iwl2030-firmware-18.168.6.1-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:56 AM MST
iwl2000-firmware-18.168.6.1-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:56 AM MST
iwl135-firmware-18.168.6.1-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:56 AM MST
iwl105-firmware-18.168.6.1-139.fc36.noarch Thu 15 Sep 2022 08:12:56 AM MST
* EFI boot manager output (efibootmgr -v):
BootCurrent: 0004
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0004,0000,2001
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager HD(2,GPT,564dedfc-28d9-42e6-a6e5-ba63d0a88b03,0xfa000,0x32000)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS.........x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}...1................
Boot0001* UEFI Onboard LAN IPv6 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(74867a2bed15,0)/IPv6([::]:<->[::]:,0,0)RC
Boot0002* UEFI Onboard LAN IPv4 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(74867a2bed15,0)/IPv4(0.0.0.00.0.0.0,0,0)RC
Boot0003* EFI USB1 PATH1 (SanDisk Cruzer Glide) PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x0)/USB(0,0)/USB(0,0)/HD(2,MBR,0x928a12a9,0x1cd9800,0x10000)RC
Boot0004* Fedora HD(2,GPT,564dedfc-28d9-42e6-a6e5-ba63d0a88b03,0xfa000,0x32000)/File(\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi)
Boot2001* EFI USB Device RC
It’s bare metal.
My keyboard (Microsoft Corp. Natural Keyboard Pro) layout is US.
The super key is working for everything else, just not bringing up the application list or the search box. That’s why I’m wondering did something go wrong during the install.
I’ve been running f36 since it came out but because my hard drive was failing, I switched to an SSD drive and did a clean install with these problems as a result.
Do you have another keyboard to try with?
When you login are you running gnome-classic or are you running a regular gnome session?
If you’re running gnome-classic please switch to gnome and see if it works as expected.
That did the trick! I inadvertently chose Gnome class on Xorg instead of Gnome on Xorg. I never would have thought to look there. Many thanks