Menu key

The menu button on a computer keyboard used to enter the so-called context menu that contains a relevant to the cursor position function selection. The function of the menu button usually corresponds to the key combination Shift F10. In contrast, the right-click method usually gives the mouse a mouse pointer relevant context menu.

The Menu button has been introduced along with two Windows keys while 104/105-Tasten-Layout ( previously 102 keys ), which was developed as part of the Windows 95 operating system.

The keyboard icon is standardized in Amendment 1 (2012 ) to ISO / IEC 9995-7:2009, " Information technology - Keyboard layouts for text and office systems - Symbols used to represent functions" as a symbol 98, as well as in IEC 60417 "Graphical Symbols for Use on Equipment " as a symbol IEC 60417-6089. In Unicode, the character is not currently ( September 2012 ), its inclusion, however, is sought. For Linux, the LANANA has in the Private Use Area code point U F811 occupied.

Cursor (computers) ISO/IEC 9995 International Electrotechnical Commission Private Use Areas Codepoint Esc key Scroll lock 8 (number) 9 (number) 4 (number) 6 (number) 3 (number)
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