keyboard layout: change super key (windows key) to behave differently

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Published on 2010-05-19T14:40:47Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 14:51 UTC
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one of my keyboard keys is dead (< >) and I'd like to change the windows/super key behavior, so I can use it to type < and > .

is this possible? I'm on ubuntu 9.04 with gnome, I read some info about setxkbmap and xmodmap but I don't know where to start.

thanks

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