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Naijeru

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From: England

Registered: 2011-10-19

Posts: 23

Shifted Function Keys

I can't seem to get these to work, to be honest, I have no idea how to get them to work.

My xorg.conf contains this for the keyboard

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

As I use a UK Keyboard. Everything mostly works okay, except Shift+F2, Shift+F8 etc... just never do anything when they should.

Have I missed something during my setup?

x33a

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Shifted Function Keys

First try xbindkeys, and see if it returns the keys you press.

To use xbindkeys, try

xbindkeys -k and post its output here for shift-f2, shift-f8, etc.

Naijeru

Member

From: England

Registered: 2011-10-19

Posts: 23

Re: Shifted Function Keys

I'm thinking the problem might be application specific. But anyway, just installed xbindkeys and these are the results.

>>xbindkeys -k                                                                                                
Press combination of keys or/and click under the window.
You can use one of the two lines after "NoCommand"
in $HOME/.xbindkeysrc to bind a key.
"(Scheme function)"
    m:0x11 + c:67
    Shift+Mod2 + F1

and

Press combination of keys or/and click under the window.
You can use one of the two lines after "NoCommand"
in $HOME/.xbindkeysrc to bind a key.
"(Scheme function)"
    m:0x11 + c:74
    Shift+Mod2 + F8

I'm assuming this means it's okay, and my problem could be application related instead?

x33a

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Shifted Function Keys

Yes, i would suspect application related problem too, as the output of xbindkeys is correct.

Which application are you using anyway.