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[Tommy Vestermark <tommy.vestermark@xxxxxxxxx>]

@Brad:
What you describe is easily obtainable for any keyboard by spending 5 minutes in the Keyboard Shortcuts program. Right now this mapping is done by adding (buggy) code to the kernel - and is very difficult to change back for users expecting their F-keys to work consistently as for any other keyboard. Furthermore F5 and F6 are inverted compared to the other F-keys!

The F-key are important keys in OpenOffice, Firefox, Evince, Evolution,
Krusader and many, many other programs - and often the F-keys even has
modifiers like Ctrl and Shift. This makes it unacceptable to require fn
to be pressed for using the F-keys, whereas it is a small offer to
require the fn key pressed for the six(!) media keys that actually have
a meaning in Ubuntu.

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Slim USB Apple Keyboard not working correctly..
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201887
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in Source Package "linux" in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
I have the new Slim USB Apple Keyboard and in Hardy Heron (Beta) when I first boot up the alphabet keys work perfectly, but once I type in the numpad or a number, nothing happens.  After nothing happens I'm not able to use my alpha keys, either..  When I type alphabet keys after trying a number the alphabet keys produce numbers like '4' and '3'..  And many of the keys don't do anything..


I have tried setting the keyboard up as default, and as an Apple keyboard by going to System > Prefs > Keyboard -- but nothing works.

If i then unplug the keyboard to reboot the keys usually work fine until I hit a number key or the keypad again.