How to make Windows key the IntelliJ IDEA Command/Meta key under Windows?

Here's a workaround that works partly. In IDEA do the following:

Help -> Edit Custom Properties...
- In the file that opens, add this on a new line: keymap.windows.as.meta=true
Choose your Mac keymap under File -> Settings... -> Keymap. For example, "Mac OS X 10.5+".

If you use a Windows keyboard and you want the same layout as with your Mac keyboard you can remap

the left Windows key to become the left Alt key and
the left Alt to become the left Windows key, that would then be interpreted as the Mac's Command (Cmd/Meta) key.

To do so, you could install AutoHotkey and run it with the following script, by putting these two lines in a .ahk file:

LAlt::LWinLWin::LAlt

To read more about the problem(s) with both the Windows key and this workaround see the comments of IDEA-144702.

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