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ojZim

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Registered: 2013-05-05

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My F2 key is broken. How can I press FN+F2 to turing on&off the wifi?

Hello. Thank for your helps.
I have Asus 1005pxd notebook.
I have installed i686-archlinux on it, the FN keys was working out-of-box. but my F2 key is broken. so I can't turn off wi-fi device completly. I need to do this.
Is there are any alternative?

jasonwryan

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Re: My F2 key is broken. How can I press FN+F2 to turing on&off the wifi?

Bind rfkill to another key. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ex … board_keys

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headkase

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Re: My F2 key is broken. How can I press FN+F2 to turing on&off the wifi?

I have installed i686-archlinux on it

If you aren't aware then it is important that you are: i686 support is being phased out.  Sorry if you don't have any 64-bit capable hardware.

ojZim

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From: Iran

Registered: 2013-05-05

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Re: My F2 key is broken. How can I press FN+F2 to turing on&off the wifi?

I have installed i686-archlinux on it

If you aren't aware then it is important that you are: i686 support is being phased out.  Sorry if you don't have any 64-bit capable hardware.

Thanks, yes I know. Fortunately my cpu supports x86_64.

Bind rfkill to another key. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ex … board_keys

Thanks. I have readed wiki before posting for hours. But my English is not good so I can not understand all of the wiki. But, I understood how can I change keymap in Xorg.
but I did not get how can I change function keys in my OS.
I know: laptop Fn keys are at the lowest level of hardware.
Thanks.

Last edited by ojZim (2017-07-19 07:37:33)

ojZim

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Re: My F2 key is broken. How can I press FN+F2 to turing on&off the wifi?

Bump!

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Re: My F2 key is broken. How can I press FN+F2 to turing on&off the wifi?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ct#Bumping

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stupidus

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Re: My F2 key is broken. How can I press FN+F2 to turing on&off the wifi?

In my laptop, the wireless key has the keysym "XF86WLAN". I am not sure, if it is the same on your computer. But if you are on Xorg, you can try to use xmodmap to rebind some other key to that.

The instructions can be found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmodmap

Trilby

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Re: My F2 key is broken. How can I press FN+F2 to turing on&off the wifi?

stupidus, the OP already noted that they can do this in X, but they want it systemwide (outside of X).

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Maniaxx

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Re: My F2 key is broken. How can I press FN+F2 to turing on&off the wifi?

Maybe redirect ctrl+alt+del to a wifi trigger script.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/297703

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evilteemo

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Re: My F2 key is broken. How can I press FN+F2 to turing on&off the wifi?

Alternatively, you can use https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xbindkeys

Last edited by evilteemo (2017-07-26 23:28:39)

stupidus

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Registered: 2012-02-27

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Re: My F2 key is broken. How can I press FN+F2 to turing on&off the wifi?

stupidus, the OP already noted that they can do this in X, but they want it systemwide (outside of X).

I had seen that, but I must have misinterpreted it. Sorry.

Anyhow, if it is really about the hardware thing, would it not be easier to just repair the F2 key? How is it broken? If it is the plastic spring thingy or the rubber cap that's broken, you can just replaced it with a piece from another key that you don't need. (Scroll-lock, break, or menu key come to mind, whichever you need the least)