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Tested the Intrepid daily live CD just now (31AUG2008), on a Macbook
Air. I cannot determine from the thread whether the default beviour will
be changed to "linux standard", from the current "mac standard", but
these are my two cents on the matter. My first problem was to debug a
non-functional mouse pointer, and having to press FN+ALT+F2 to bring up
the command launcher was utterly unintuitive. My first assumption, while
pressing ALT+F2, was that my keyboard was frozen as well...

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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 “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
Status in “linux” source package in Suse: 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.