How to switch the input mode without touching the Windows flag key?

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panties
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Iscritto: 02/02/2021

I don't want to touch the key with the Windows logo on it, but the default for the iBus/Mozc duo is that you have to press that key and the spacebar at the same time.
I once managed to set it up so that I could switch languages with a single press of the right alt key with same iBus/Mozc duo, but I remember that it took me a couple of hours to do it.
I tried to reproduce it the other day, but I couldn't do it.
Please let me know what to do.
Also, when I started a system, I always have to use the mouse to switch the input mode from direct input (A) to hiragana when I switch to Japanese, which is a bit inconvenient.
I couldn't even figure out how to set it to always hiragana.
Please let me know what to do.

andyprough
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Iscritto: 02/12/2015

There is no problem whatsoever with touching the Windows logo key. It is just a key, it does not do anything special except what Trisquel tells it to do. On other keyboards that do not have the Windows logo, it is called the "Meta" key or the "Super" key.

panties
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Iscritto: 02/02/2021

OK, so why don't we call that key the Four Freedoms Key among us?
That might solve the first problem, but I still think it would be better to be able to switch languages by pressing only the four freedoms key only once.

andyprough
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Iscritto: 02/12/2015

OK, from now on, it is the Four Freedoms Key. Officially.

lanun
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Iscritto: 04/01/2021

> There is no problem whatsoever with touching the Windows logo key.

Some people would never buy this. They can always buy that instead:
https://thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/tux-super-key-keyboard-sticker

Unfortunately, super key keyboard stickers with Freedo, GNU's gnu or Trisquel's trisquelion are difficult to come by.

panties
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Iscritto: 02/02/2021

This sticker seems to be an embodied form of shallow thinking that does not consider how to fundamentally solve the problem of "covering up the filth so that it is not visible".