On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]
>> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:26:09 -0700
>> > Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> dijo:
>> >
>> >>> Might I ask why you didn't install Xubuntu 12.10 amd64 if you wanted
>> >>> XFCE? Your still going to have tidbits that Unity needs if you throw
>> >>> XFCE on top while if you use Xubuntu your getting a pure XFCE
>> >>> experience.
>> >
>> >>Ignorance, basically, although the "amd" makes me wonder if it is
>> >>suitable for an Intel machine. Thanks for the suggestion.
>> >
>> > Ignorance and miscommunication. Denis said "Ubuntu" and I didn't
>> > realize until after he installed it that he intended to run Xfce.
>> >
>> > Because his netbook has no optical drive we had to make a bootable USB
>> > drive. My computer has Fedora 16 which comes with a utility to make a
>> > bootable USB, but it won't work with anything but Fedora images.
>> > However, I had previously installed UNetbootin on the recommendation
>> > that it could make a bootable USB drive out of any distro image. At the
>> > Clinic Sunday was the first time I ever tried to use it. I am happy to
>> > report that it made Denis' USB drive bootable with 12.10, exactly as
>> > advertised.
>> >
>> > So Denis, if you want to start over with Xubuntu, install UNetbootin,
>> > download Xubuntu, and repeat what we did at the Clinic. No guarantees
>> > that it will solve the other issues you have, however, but at least it
>> > will not have any unnecessary parts of other desktop environments in
>> > it.
>>
>> Thanks, John.  I have little hope that a fresh install of Xubuntu will
>> solve the function key problems, but it is certainly worth a try.  If
>> it does not, I will be looking at another choice.
>>
>> -Denis
>>
>
> Denis you could also try to change the keybindings to get them working.
>
> --
> *Benjamin Kerensa*

I will look again, but the last time I tried to do that I found that
none of the function keys were listed, as if the function keys are
handled through a different mechanism.

-Denis
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