Can't launch menu with the Super key after rebinding Caps Lock to Super via setxkbmap

[codic12]

• Cinnamon 4.8.6
• Distribution: Arch
• Graphics hardware Intel Iris Xe graphics, and Intel Intel Graphics 4000 with i915 and intel drivers respectively
• x86_64

Issue As I have no need for the Caps Lock key and in fact often press it, I usually rebind it with the command setxkbmap -option caps:super. This sets the Caps Lock key to be identical to the Super key in behavior, while preserving the behavior of the Super key, in most desktops. However, in Cinnamon, once I do this, I can no longer launch the menu with the original Super Key, only via the Caps Lock key and the panel button. To further complicate things, shortcuts involving Super like Super+e work with both caps lock and super as is expected. Every other desktop I've tried handles this just fine, leading me to believe it is either a Cinnamon bug or a feature that conflicts (if so, let me know please!). Maybe there's an option in the settings somewhere, and I can't find it.

Steps to reproduce run setxkbmap -option caps:super observe that the menu doesn't open with the super key anymore.

Expected behaviour The two keys should have interchangeable behavior like on other desktop environments.

[bdemirtas]

Can confirm, I'm having the exact same issue.

[chriselrod]

I ran setxkbmap -option "caps:hyper" from the command line because I wanted hyper, but emacs now reads caps lock as super instead of hyper. Googling the problem brought me to #8957.

So, it seems like `caps:hyper" rebinds caps to super, so anyone finding this issue could try that.

I think I may have to restart my session to see what caps:super does.