Menu button

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The context menu key on a keyboard
ISO keyboard icon of the menu button

The menu key on a computer keyboard is used to call up the so-called context menu , which contains a selection of functions relevant to the cursor position . The function of the menu key usually corresponds to the key combination Shift+ F10. In contrast to this, the right-click with the mouse usually provides a mouse pointer-relevant context menu.

The button menu along with two Windows keys at 104/105- key layout introduced (previously 101-key), which in the course of the operating system Windows 95 was developed.

The keyboard symbol 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 Symbol 98, as well as in IEC 60417 "Graphical Symbols for use on Equipment “ as symbol IEC 60417-6089. The character is currently (September 2012) not included in Unicode , but application has been made to include it. For Linux has LANANA in the Private Use the code point U + F811 occupied.

Individual evidence

  1. ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC35 / WG1 (ed. Karl Pentzlin): Revised proposal to incorporate the symbols of ISO / IEC 9995-7: 2009 and its Amendment 1 into the UCS. (PDF; 431 kB) ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC2 / WG2, September 7, 2012, accessed on September 27, 2012 (English).
  2. ^ H. Peter Anvin (ed.): Linux Zone Unicode Assignments. (TXT) The "Linux Assigned Names And Numbers Authority" (LANANA) project, January 17, 2005, accessed September 12, 2012 .