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[Tommy Vestermark <tommy.vestermark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter, I agree wholeheartedly with your observations. It is
completely crazy to the point where there is actually introduced
remedies to the kernel-madness in the Keyboard Preference program (hint:
see System->Preferences->Keyboard->Layout->Layout Options->Miscellaneous
compatibility options->Swap keycodes of two keys when mac keyboards are
misdetected by kernel) !!!

To remove the function key and num lock madness you can add the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/options:
options hid pb_fnmode=0

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Apple fn key behavior isn't consistent with what's expected
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201711
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in Source Package "linux" in Ubuntu: New
Status in Source Package "linux" in Suse Linux: Fix Released

Bug description:
Hi, this is a follow up to bug 162083.  With my newly functional FN key on my Aluminum BT keyboard, I realized that the default behavior on it doesn't make much sense with what users have come to expect on Linux systems.  The default behavior is that the "special keys", like f1-f2-f10-f11-etc all act "special" without pressing fn.  They then act normally when you hold FN.  This is the default behavior on Mac OSX, but on Linux the FN keys are more commonly used.  Eg, it's rather awkward to have to press ctrl-alt-fn-f1 to switch to a VT, or FN-F11 to set a terminal full screen.