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</div>maybe i'm misunderstanding you, but i think i didn't do a good<br>
job up above. the 4 keys used by sugar for network, friends,<br>
home, and activity _are_ F1 through F4. those keys have never<br>
been special, and they're not special on the new keyboard. all<br>
that's changed on the new keyboard is that the keys now have two<br>
names: the symbolic sugar icon, and the traditional F{1,2,3,4}<br>
name.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nope, you read me right. I have not a good idea of what goes on in that background(altough I knew they were the default F keys currently) so I was asking if that was possible - to have different meanings to the F1-12 keys and having them send another code when pressing Fn+F1-12, as it could be reused by software(xmodmap?).</div>
<div> </div><div>Since you're already reusing the F keys with gnome loaded to control volume and the backlight, it makes sense to me to have the Fn key modify the behavior to provide the default F1-12 behavior in some way. While they're not used constantly, they are important sometimes. I frequently ran into this problem and there's no easy way around missing F keys in Gnome, as if this is a common use case... probably not but I don't do deployments :|</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Tiago</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
this is in contrast with the arrow and pgup/dn/home/end keys where the<br>
secondary meaning is available only when you press the Fn key.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><font color="#888888">
paul<br>
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> Best regards,<br>
> Tiago<br>
><br>
><br>
> ><br>
> > paul<br>
> ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > Tiago<br>
> > ><br>
> > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <<a href="mailto:mikus@bga.com">mikus@bga.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > > > The following are the keyboard layouts and legends for these<br>
> > > > > new keyboards. Much thanks to Walter Bender for developing<br>
> > > > > these given a bad set of constraints.<br>
> > > > > <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_English_Non-membrane_Keyboard" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_English_Non-membrane_Keyboard</a><br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > There may be users who wish to plug in an external keyboard. Such<br>
> > > > external keyboards often have function keys grouped in sets of four.<br>
> > > > Such grouping places F5 at the beginning of a row of four keys, and<br>
> > > > places F6 in the middle of a row of four keys.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > Suppose users might be pressing the key for 'frame' more often than<br>
> > the<br>
> > > > key for 'search'. Should the 'frame' function be assigned to the F5<br>
> > > > key, since on external keyboards the F5 key might be easier to locate<br>
> > ?<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > mikus<br>
> > > ><br>
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> > paul fox, <a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a><br>
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paul fox, <a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a><br>
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