Defining keyboard actions

[Ahmad Samir]

On 30 October 2011 22:16, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm temporarily working on a Microsoft multimedia keyboard.  To my surprise
> the function keys do not behave as expected.  F9, for instance, is recognised
> as Send - at least when I try to program a keyboard shortcut, that's what
> shows up (it doesn't send in KMail :-) ).  F10-F12 don't seem to be
> recognised.
>

Some Microsoft keyboards have an F-Lock button; it toggles the F1-12
buttons between being F1-12 as usual, or being special hotkeys (e.g.
F2 becomes undo, F3 redo... etc, IIRC).

Basically the F-Lock button is to the F1-12 buttons what the Numlock
key is to the Numpad.

> I'm sure there used to be an app for defining multimedia keys, etc., but can't
> remember what it was.  I really need to re-program some of these keys, and
> can't in systemsettings, so any help would be very much appreciated.
>
> Anne
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Ahmad Samir