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#1 2021-11-04 17:48:52
- ugyuu
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[SOLVED] Keychron K3 F/multimedia key issues
I've recently acquired a Keychron K3 as my daily driver keyboard. It is a numkeyless keyboard. The top row of this keyboard has F keys 1-12 like usual, with multimedia key functionality on top. You can normally use those multimedia keys by using Fn + an F key.
Unfortunately, my Arch Linux does not take any F key inputs from this keyboard at all. Pressing these keys only activates the multimedia function tied with them. Whenever I press the F keys, I can tell that it registers a key press, but nothing else happens afterwards. I've inspected my keyboard and window manager settings for macros and such, using XFCE's settings manager.
My keyboard model is set to Generic 86-key PC and my keyboard layout is English (US), with euro on 5.
For some extra clarity, I'll share the listing for this keyboard through this URL, which has all information about the keyboard and its layout.
Is this an issue that needs to be fixed by reprogramming keys, or is it a configuration issue with my settings?
Last edited by ugyuu (2021-11-05 19:47:30)
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#2 2021-11-04 21:57:44
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Re: [SOLVED] Keychron K3 F/multimedia key issues
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#3 2021-11-05 01:55:52
- ngoonee
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Re: [SOLVED] Keychron K3 F/multimedia key issues
In addition to what seth mentioned, some of these smaller keyboards have 'windows mode' and 'mac mode'. On my royal kludge I press a key combo to switch between them (Fn-A and Fn-S, Keychron will differ). Windows mode is the one which 'reveals' all the F1-F12 keys.
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#4 2021-11-05 19:48:48
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Re: [SOLVED] Keychron K3 F/multimedia key issues
Thank you for the help! I immediately realized that it would have been a good idea for me to search through forum posts, before making a new post here.
Following the instructions through the first link in the first reply fixed the problems for me.
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