Set Super/Windows Key to Show All Applications Menu in GNOME

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I am on Antergos with GNOME 3.24.3.

Pressing the Super key (Windows key) opens this Activities menu/view that I don't want to use:

Pressing the Super + A keys opens the menu that I want to open with just the Super key:

I have attempted to set this myself by using dconf-editor to set the Activities menu to the Alt_R key (a key I never use) and the Show All Applications menu to the Super key.

(The keybinding for the Activities menu is under /org/gnome/mutter/overlay-key. The keybinding for the Show All Applications menu is under /org/gnome/shell/keybindings/toggle-application-view.)

However, pressing Super or Super + A does nothing now.

How can I make this all work?

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I configured those keys directly through Settings -> Devices -> Keyboard on Ubuntu 17.10. Under "System" section you have "Show the overview" which you can disable (by pressing backspace). And for "Show all applications" you can configure then Super.

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Use xmodmap -pm to verify that both keys have the mod4 modifier associated with them.

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xmodmap:  up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x69)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x6c),  Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3      
mod4        Super_L (0x85),  Super_R (0x86),  Super_L (0xce),  Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod5        ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c),  Mode_switch (0xcb)

Note that it's not enough that it's named Super_L or Super_R; it's the modifier mapping that matters.

You can use xmodmap to associate keysyms with modifiers, but if your system is at all modern (and not OS X) then it uses Xkb and you probably want to examine your Xkb configuration instead of trying to change it with xmodmap. (Look at setxkbmap and friends, although probably there is a GNOME 3 interface to it that you should use.)

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