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> Whenever I see a keyboard with an "Fn" key, I sigh. This means that the designer of the keyboard thought he knows better which functions I need and took valua
by mahouse 11y ago
> Whenever I see a keyboard with an "Fn" key, I sigh. This means that the designer of the keyboard thought he knows better which functions I need and took valuable space in the modifier row for a key which I will probably never use.
And what tells you they won't make this key configurable? Nothing.
> Media control functions? Come on.
Most people listen to music, you know. It's certainly not crazy to have them on every keyboard.
- DanBC 11y agoThe FN key, especially on laptops, is not something the OS has any control over. A few laptops have a bios setting to allow swapping fn and ctrl buttons, but not all of them. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/514781/intercepting-the-fn-key-on-laptops http://stackoverflow.com/questions/514781/intercepting-the-f...
- pluma 11y agoThe Truly Ergonomic Keyboard (linked elsewhere in the thread) provides a software tool to reconfigure the keyboard's firmware. I don't see how the manufacture couldn't provide something like this to also configure the Fn key combos. I prefer firmware configuration over software anyway -- it lets you re-use the same keyboard with different computers or when dual booting.
- akiselev 11y agoThe function key is most often (read: always) implemented in hardware so when you hold the button the chip in the keyboard modifies the raw character code sent over USB. Unless they explicitly programmed the IC for re onfigurability of FN, it will be the same useless button.