Re: Change in handling of the Windows key

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> In recent-ish builds of the emacs-25 branch, I find that the Windows
>> key is intercepted by Emacs and no longer opens the start menu. (The
>> Windows key still opens the start menu if Emacs is not the foreground
>> application.) Is this a deliberate change?
>> 
>> (This is on Windows 7, which I have to use at work. On Windows 10 I
>> can still open the start screen in the usual way.)
>
> I cannot reproduce this.  I tried Emacs 25.0.95 on 2 Windows 7
> systems, and the latest emacs-25 branch on XP, and in all 3 cases the
> Windows key still works as it always did.
>
> So some other factor must be at work here.

I can reproduce with 25.1.50.1 (i686-w64-mingw32) of 2016-06-06 on
Windows XP. C-h k says

<lwindow> runs the command ignore [rest of text elided]

> For starters, does this happen to you in "emacs -Q"?

Yes.