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Will I be the only one who misses this key on the keyboards of some modern laptops?

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  • 13
    7y
    yes. what does it even do
  • 11
    7y
    Ah, my backup key for when the mouse battery goes flat 😇
  • 15
    7y
    Truth be told I still miss the numpad more than this context menu button. I still miss it though.
  • 7
    7y
    I'd rather have the context key over the right ctrl
  • 1
    7y
    Never used it.
  • 3
    7y
    @theuser never used the right ctrl key yeah the context key is useful
  • 1
    7y
    Of course, it's an extra modifier, usually map it to Hyper.
  • 3
    7y
    It's called the menu key. I use it for compose key. It's super useful.
  • 2
    7y
    I've mapped super + menu to screen lock because it's very convenient to hit. Wouldn't use it much otherwise, because less than half of my keyboards have it.
  • 3
    7y
    Super effective to rename shit on windows
  • 0
    7y
    I have it and I don't know what it does
  • 1
    7y
    Already missing this from my current laptop, although most right click menus have a shortcut anyway.
  • 1
    7y
    I use it sometimes, it can be useful
  • 1
    7y
    I noticed and used this key for the first time today
  • 2
    7y
    Lenevo laptops especially ThinkPad have the best keyboard format, even the pg up/down are placed logically around up and down arrow key !
  • 1
    7y
    I have it on my external keyboard.
  • 4
    7y
    Lenovo really should swap the Fn & left-Ctrl keys though. Having Ctrl anywhere other than extreme bottom-left is uber jarring.
  • 2
    7y
    I don't buy the laptop if it doesn't have that key.
  • 1
    7y
    Can't work without this one :)
  • 1
    7y
    lol i m using pc since 2011 today i got to know what this button is for
  • 1
    7y
    I hate that key but maybe i have never learnt yo use it well
  • 0
    7y
    I believe so. To which char_key that key is binded to?
  • 1
    7y
    @faheel when only lenovo does it, it fucks everyone up. when i got my lenovo, i pressed up when i meant to press shift for almost two months.
  • 0
    7y
    I thought I am gonna miss it. But as I am forcing myself more and more to use keyboard for navigation only, this key and a mouse becomes obsolete.
  • 1
    7y
    I think it sometimes stimulates a right click?
  • 1
    7y
    @Bandic00t lenovo got settings to switch fn and ctrl keys
  • 2
    7y
    Btw: shift + F10 works as well if that key is not there and you need its function.
  • 1
    7y
    @Azoth128 Thanks, good to know. Will check it out next time I have to use one.
  • 1
    7y
    @Bandic00t If you're running a thinkpad, there's a BIOS option to swap them.
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