Comment 52 for bug 201887
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| Tommy Vestermark (tov) wrote Re: Slim USB Apple Keyboard not working correctly.. | #52 |
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@Brad:
What you describe is easily obtainable for any keyboard by spending 5 minutes in the Keyboard Shortcuts program. Right now this mapping is done by adding (buggy) code to the kernel - and is very difficult to change back for users expecting their F-keys to work consistently as for any other keyboard. Furthermore F5 and F6 are inverted compared to the other F-keys!
The F-key are important keys in OpenOffice, Firefox, Evince, Evolution, Krusader and many, many other programs - and often the F-keys even has modifiers like Ctrl and Shift. This makes it unacceptable to require fn to be pressed for using the F-keys, whereas it is a small offer to require the fn key pressed for the six(!) media keys that actually have a meaning in Ubuntu.