I got a new keyboard with function keys, but I have to hold the FN key to use the F1|F12 keys normally and not to change the volume, brightness, etc. How do I change this?
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Have you looked at other similar questions? http://askubuntu.com/q/170819/62483 & http://askubuntu.com/q/171166/62483 – Lucio May 12 '14 at 03:24
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Hmmm... in my 3 keyboards the handling of "Fn" is totally hardware, and is invisible on the Linux side (I mean, I have to press Fn+keypad 0 to have "Menu", but `xev` see just the Menu keypress). So this thing should be a setting of the keyboard itself --- maybe a switch or a key combo --- or I fear it is basically impossible. Try with `xev` to see which key events are generated: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Extra_Keyboard_Keys. One of the keyboards has a "Fn lock" option. – Rmano May 12 '14 at 03:54
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@Lucio; I have, and nothing (including those two) are what I'm looking for. – kookman98 May 12 '14 at 05:53
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@Rmano; This is possible to change on windows, as many laptop keyboards require you to press `FN` in order to use the `F` keys normally. – kookman98 May 12 '14 at 05:54
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If you can change it in Windows it could still be some proprietary magic sequence sent to the keyboard... Try to ask the vendor for Linux support, sometime it works... – Rmano May 12 '14 at 12:49