Pressing Super key does not reveal Unity Dash

I'd like that fixed too. However this doesn't seem to be doable with sending keys strokes through python-virtkey, as onboard does currently. Using at-spi to send key strokes may be an option and I was going to look into this anyway.
Confirming for now.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Trunk has a fix for this now, pressing left or right Super reveals the launcher. Opening Dash requires pressing Super+Tab.
With Super alone, opening the launcher (and not Dash) is the best I can do at the moment. In order to open Dash, Unity apparently checks for a very short duration between super key press and release. I haven't found a way to achieve that duration without disabling the sticky key feature and we need sticky keys to allow for entering Super key combinations.

This bug was fixed in the package onboard - 0.98.0-0ubuntu1

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onboard (0.98.0-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * Freeze exception request for new upstream release (LP: #1041303)
  * debian/pycompat: removed as not used anymore
  * debian/control:
    - Build-Depends:
      + replace python and python-all-dev with python3-all-dev
      + replace python-distutils-extra with python3-distutils-extra
      + remove libxi-dev as libgtk-3-dev pulls it in
    - remove X-Python-Version and set X-Python3-Version: >= 3.2
    - Depends:
      + remove ${python:Depends}, python-cairo, python-dbus,
        python-virtkey (>= 0.60.0) and gir1.2-wnck-3.0
      + add ${python3:Depends}, python3-cairo, python3-gi-cairo,
        python3-dbus and python3-virtkey (>= 0.61.0)
  * debian/rules:
    - enhance it to work with python2 and python3
    - add procedure to switch between python2 and python3
    - add --without python-support to appease lintian
  * debian/onboard.lintian-override:
    - override missing manual message
    - override extra-license-file message
  * Move gsettings path to /org/onboard (LP: #982699); thanks R. Ancell
  * Various visual improvements:
    - push down effect on keys
    - keys now have shadows
    - smaller touch handles
    - tweak images used by click buttons and other keys
    - smoother transparency transitions
  * Detect window manager to care for its specificities
  * Add command line option to override automatic environment detection
  * Mark command line help as translatable
  * Add middle click in hover click mode; requires mousetweaks >= 3.3.90
  * Various auto-show fixes
  * Stop endless loop of auto-show on top of unity dash
  * Fix some show/hide problems
  * Stop wiggling of launcher icons on show/hide of keyboard window
  * Various python3 adaptions, trying to keep python2 compatibility
  * Move to python3 needs virtkey version >= 0.61.0
  * Switch all translated strings to unicode (LP: #933030)
  * Make python3 the default
  * Don't show disabled buttons when XEmbedding (LP: #1019593)
  * Don't create the icon palette when XEmbedding
  * Add new color scheme to follow the HighContrastInverse theme update
  * Stayon top of full-screen windows in force-to-top mode (LP: #1035578)
  * Fix keyboard and icon palette not always above dash
  * Add lockdown key to disable all dwell-activation
  * Adapt to WM_NAMEs of Unity version 6
  * Write message listing dependencies when sdist fails
  * Add tests to check translations for errors, uses python-nose
  * Make Onboard more robust against translation errors
  * Make icon palette dwellable
  * Add dconf version detection, thanks Robert Ancell
  * Fix Super key (LP: #900191)
  * Make menu key pop up context menu
  * Separate layout loading from the keyboard widget
  * Improve exception handling for theme and color files
  * Limit keyboard size when it doesn't fit on screen (LP: #991318)
  * Trap various X BadWindow errors (LP: #1016980)
  * Work around regression of configure event in quantal
  * Remove wnck dependency as gtk3's window-state-event reports iconification
  * Prevent zombie process when launching preferences (LP: #936332)
  * Only appear in gnome...