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[Jonas Jochum <jonas.jochum@xxxxxxx>]

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The default behaviour is seriously annoying. Lots and lots  of keyboard shortcuts use FN keys, and having to press the fn button on Apple keyboards to access those shortcuts REALLY IS a finger excercise. Please, pleeeease change this behaviour for 10.04. I don't think any user familiar with Mac OS X expects Apple-like behaviour of the function keys on Linux. And those expecting that behaviour most likely won't use Linux on their computers.

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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” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “linux” 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.