The top row "F Keys" on the keyboard change the brightness, volume, media controls etc, so if you are in an application where you actually want to press F1 for example, you need to hold FN so that you are sending F1 to the program and not turning the brightness down.
You can flip the behaviour in the keyboard preferences if you want so that you hold FN to do the brightness and volume, and the plain keystrokes are F1-12 toby On 22 July 2011 12:06, andrew lancaster <[email protected]> wrote: > That is an interesting snippett! I shall remember that - I hope! > > > n 22 Jul 2011, at 12:01 pm, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > > > Fn is another modifier key, so fn + backspace = forward delete. > > > > Regards > > > > Sam > > > > -- > > MacAmbulance > > Sam Mullen > > 07747778022 > > [email protected] > > > > On 22 Jul 2011, at 11:03, andrew lancaster <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I have just bought a 27" iMac (love it) and was surprised by the smaller > keyboard. But particularly by the fn key at the bottom left hand corner - > what is it for / does it do? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Andrew > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > >> > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
