>>>>> "jon" == jon <[email protected]> writes:
jon> I have a Verbatim keyboard which is about four years old. It has jon> a special key at the top left which 'shifts' the functions of the jon> function keys to some non-standard program-specific settings; jon> e.g. F2 becomes 'New' and F7 becomes 'Spell Check'. When booting jon> into Linux Mint this option is turned on by default, and it's a jon> bloody nuisance. There is also a row of special 'launching' jon> buttons along the top for programs like Word, which could be jon> useful if I could work out and change what they are actually jon> sending. Can anyone with experience of this come up with a way to jon> prevent the shifted settings starting up by default, and/or a key jon> interceptor program which could at least tell me what codes the jon> 'shifted' function keys are sending to the CPU? Xev can tell you what's being pressed. I don't know how to reset the keyboard to a known state, though. Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
