Super (Windows) Key Busted after 17.3 Upgrade

General Help
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Pretty much as the title says. I upgraded to 17.3 on my PC and it caused my NVIDIA graphics drivers to quit working (fixed that part already), but more importantly now the Windows key just seems to do nothing anymore lol

I rely on that for accessing my taskbar because I'm a taskbar hider, so I kinda need it. Any thoughts?

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What Region & Language settings are you using?
If you can give Computer specs; they may help: Notebook computer with built in keyboard or Desktop PC with external USB keyboard...

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Desktop PC with Zorin OS 17.3 in English (US)
Specs are
Ryzen 7 5700X3D and an RTX 4070, 32GB DDR4 RAM @ 3600Mhz

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Well, I can think of two possibilities:

  • Kernel upgrade affected your hardware, in this case, keyboard driver.

  • Upgrade is coincidental to a physical problem.

Can you try booting from an earlier kernel from your Grub menu? See if the keyboard keys all work.
If that is no good, check if there is something gumming up the works under the key or the keyboard needs cleaning...

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