> > > maybe i'm misunderstanding you, but i think i didn't do a good > job up above. the 4 keys used by sugar for network, friends, > home, and activity _are_ F1 through F4. those keys have never > been special, and they're not special on the new keyboard. all > that's changed on the new keyboard is that the keys now have two > names: the symbolic sugar icon, and the traditional F{1,2,3,4} > name. > > 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?).
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 :| Best regards, Tiago this is in contrast with the arrow and pgup/dn/home/end keys where the > secondary meaning is available only when you press the Fn key. paul > > > > > Best regards, > > Tiago > > > > > > > > > > paul > > > > > > > > > > > Tiago > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mi...@bga.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The following are the keyboard layouts and legends for these > > > > > > new keyboards. Much thanks to Walter Bender for developing > > > > > > these given a bad set of constraints. > > > > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_English_Non-membrane_Keyboard > > > > > > > > > > There may be users who wish to plug in an external keyboard. > Such > > > > > external keyboards often have function keys grouped in sets of > four. > > > > > Such grouping places F5 at the beginning of a row of four keys, > and > > > > > places F6 in the middle of a row of four keys. > > > > > > > > > > Suppose users might be pressing the key for 'frame' more often > than > > > the > > > > > key for 'search'. Should the 'frame' function be assigned to the > F5 > > > > > key, since on external keyboards the F5 key might be easier to > locate > > > ? > > > > > > > > > > mikus > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Devel mailing list > > > > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > > > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > > > > > part 2 text/plain 129 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Devel mailing list > > > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > > =--------------------- > > > paul fox, p...@laptop.org > > > > > =--------------------- > paul fox, p...@laptop.org >
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