On 02/16/2018 04:30 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 17/2/18 3:55 am, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 16:42 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: >>>> On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 15:51 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: >>>> >>>> Well obviously you need to hold the Fn key :-) (I know, some things are >>>> only obvious after the fact). >>>> >>>> BTW, for future reference I recommend you join this list and use a >>>> proper mailer with a quoting feature. The HyperKitty mail interface is >>>> absolutely terrible, and that's not even the worst part of it. >>>> >>>> poc >>> I've never met this "hold Fn key on any of the other machines I've had. >> On my keyboard (a Logitech) it's the other way round, i.e. the orange >> Fn key selects special functions such as volume control, while the >> function keys themselves work directly, so I guess there are lots of >> ways to do this. > > There are lots of ways, I've seen laptops with a blue Fn key to activate > the function keys and numeric keypad, and also have an orange key to > activate special functions. I'm using a desktop with a microsoft > keyboard, which has separate keys for volume, mute and play/pause > controls and even a key for a calculator, but by default none of them > work under linux and I've never investigated what needs to be done to > get them to work, even if it is possible. If it's a Logitech Wave, I have some of them working under XFCE: 1. Go to "Applications->Settings->Keyboard" 2. Select the "Application Shortcuts" tab 3. Click on the "Add" button. In the popup, put in the path to the command to run and click "OK". 4. Next, press the key on the keyboard to tie to it. For example, I have "pragha" tied to the musical notes button. "pragha -t" (play/pause) tied to the play/pause button, "pragha -n" (next) tied to the fast forward button, "pragha -p" (previous) to the rewind button, etc. See "man pragha" for details on its flags. You can assign amixer commands to for the volume up and volume down buttons, and so on. You can use "showkey" to see which keycodes each key generates (if any). > I'm also thinking of > converting to a razor gaming keyboard to match my razor gaming mouse > (the mouse doesn't work properly under linux with the interfaces that > need to be downloaded, the kernel driver needed to with bluetooth works > fine but the apps don't, and I'm yet to determine whether its an issue > with the apps or the bus which they use (the apps function via the bus > and work fine with the mouse when its on usb but not when its on > bluetooth) where the keyboard has a vastly different setup again. Can't speak to that. Bluetooth on Linux has been problematic to me as well--probably because I really don't grok the various profiles available, nor how to manipulate them to my liking. [snipped the rest of the message] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - UNIX is actually quite user friendly. The problem is that it's - - just very picky of who its friends are! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
