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Then you will be glad to know that recent versions of KDE (I can vouch for Kubuntu 16.04) have mapped the meta key to applications menu.

Although, I have never felt the need for it. I like using the krunner (it is similar to spotlight on Mac) instead of the application menu.

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I never got used to krunner probably cause I didn't yet have a Mac everytime I tried it. I might have to give it a shot again. I feel like redoing my OS on my laptop so I may run a newer copy of Kubuntu and try again. Thanks for the heads up. Did you map it to a similar key combination or just used whatever the default key bindings were?

I have mapped it to meta + R (more mnemonic) from the default Alt + F2.

I use it a lot for quick calculations.

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