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'm sure there used to be an app for defining multimedia keys, etc., but can't remember what it was. I really need to re-program some of these keys, and can't in systemsettings, so any help would be very much appreciated.
Anne
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