F-11 and F-12 on same machine?

[Timothy Murphy]

Tom Horsley wrote:

>> It seems to me that it shouldn't be too difficult
>> for an "if F11 ... elsif F12" sequence to be included
>> in files that might be affected.
> 
> That would be up to each of the individual 47,321 apps
> that cram things in ~/ to do, and since only 0.001%
> of linux developers think either forward or
> backward compatibility is remotely useful, I doubt
> it would ever happen :-).

I think there are very few applications
that cause these problems.
Perhaps an alternative might be for such files
to be kept somewhere in /etc/ rather than in $HOME.

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