Defining keyboard actions

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 30 Oct 2011 20:48:06 Ahmad Samir wrote:
> 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've never heard of that before, and hadn't noticed the button either - it 
resides above the NumLock.  That was exactly the problem, thanks.

Thanks also to Colin and Klaatu

Anne
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