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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:41:34 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Laptop suggestions?
Message-ID:  <86fxmn35e9.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20081022173634.GA57706@thought.org> (Gary Kline's message of "Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:36:34 -0700")
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Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> writes:
> I've seen that Fn key, but don't know what it is for.  What? you press
> it, then follow with the integers [ 1, 2, 3 ... ]?   At any rate, maybe
> you can remap the key with ~/.xmodmaprc.

They're used to access keys which won't physically fit on a laptop
keyboard, such as the numeric keypad, NumLock, ScrollLock etc., and
(along with function keys) to control hardware-specific functions like
switching between internal and external display, turning bluetooth and
wlan on and off, adjusting the backlight brightness, etc.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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