I accidentally¹* replaced my menubar in KDE² and the unintended side-effect was that I couldn’t hit the Windows key (super) and have it bring up the helpful menu and search anymore. A little bit of searching around made the answer easy; apparently, binding to Meta+F1 results in the same thing as just meta. Beautiful!

Resources

• Answer found on askubuntu: https://askubuntu.com/questions/246886/how-do-i-open-the-application-launcher-on-kde-with-just-the-meta-windows-key/961407#961407

Footnotes

¹ Well, it was on purpose, but I didn’t know it would have that effect

² I don’t often use a system Window manager, but when I do, it’s KDE