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In poking around trying to make sense of this new 20.04 LTS installation, I can't seem to bring up the Activities screen. The doc says to press the Super key. OK - I'm using a standard Windows keyboard - WHAT is the Super key? I was pressing the key with the Window on it, but that just brings up a search menu. Ctrl and Alt by themselves don't work, and the hot-corners don't work either, AND I can't find out from Settings whether they are even defined.

One thing may be causing a problem. I'm using an LG TV as a monitor connected to a Dell 790 via an HDMI cable. It sees like the Ubuntu driver is making the screen image a little too large for the surface area of the TV screen, because the dock at the bottom is cut off (it's visible, but only the top 2/3 of the icons show) and the top bar with the date on it doesn't display at all. I only discovered it was there when I set the display scale to 200%. This is not a problem I had with this TV when it was connected to a Mac Mini.

TheOld Crab
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    The key with the Windows logo is the Super key. – user68186 Aug 13 '20 at 14:46
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    Not all notebooks have a windows logo there. I have a penguin :) "I was pressing the key with the Window on it, but that just brings up a search menu" that is the activities menu. You can start typing and it will show in real time what matches,. ALT + F1 is the equivalent of the super key. – Rinzwind Aug 13 '20 at 14:52
  • The problem with the LG TV is resolved. It was a TV issue. See this post: https://askubuntu.com/questions/4358/how-do-i-fix-overscan-on-my-hdmi-hdtv – TheOld Crab Aug 13 '20 at 20:55

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The super key is the key with the windows logo on it(most commonly). Super key opens activity search, and if you want to open the activities menu , use the shortcut Super+A

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