Samuel Sieb:
Assuming you mean the CTRL-ALT-F? consoles, F35 workstation still has them and I would be surprised if the XFCE spin changed that.
Joe Zeff:
That's what I'd have expected. I'm using a new Gateway laptop and when I checked the Gateway website, there are no support forums or contact forms, just a chat module that took so long to get a human on the line that I gave up.
Is your keyboard one of those that you have to press some Fn key to make the f'n function keys work?
Test out your F keys in something, see if they do what you expect.