On Sunday 30 Oct 2011 20:48:06 Ahmad Samir wrote:
On 30 October 2011 22:16, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm temporarily working on a Microsoft multimedia keyboard. To my surprise the function keys do not behave as expected. F9, for instance, is recognised as Send - at least when I try to program a keyboard shortcut, that's what shows up (it doesn't send in KMail :-) ). F10-F12 don't seem to be recognised.
Some Microsoft keyboards have an F-Lock button; it toggles the F1-12 buttons between being F1-12 as usual, or being special hotkeys (e.g. F2 becomes undo, F3 redo... etc, IIRC).
Basically the F-Lock button is to the F1-12 buttons what the Numlock key is to the Numpad.
I've never heard of that before, and hadn't noticed the button either - it resides above the NumLock. That was exactly the problem, thanks.
Thanks also to Colin and Klaatu
Anne