F-lock keycodes.

[Carey O'Shea]

Carey O'Shea wrote:

> There is a large amount of "Multimedia" keyboards from Microsoft that 
> have an "F-lock" key. All the F1-F12 keys don't work at all by default 
> in Ubuntu Breezy Colony 5 when you turn the computer on, you have to 
> manually press the F-Lock key (this is very confusing for 
> non-technical users). They should be doing (according to Microsoft...) 
> things like Help, Undo, Redo, New, Open, etc, like they do by default 
> under Windows. This at least happens on few "Microsoft Multimedia" 
> keyboards that I tested myself, I'm not sure about all "F-lock" 
> keyboards.
>
> So I propose either changing the keys to function as their normal 
> roles (best option IMO), or make them do their "special" actions.
>
> I've reverted my keys to act as normal F keys, with or without the 
> F-lock key on, by doing this:
>
> setkeycodes bb 59     # Help  -> F1
> setkeycodes 88 60     # Undo  -> F2
> setkeycodes 87 61     # Redo  -> F3
> setkeycodes be 62     # New   -> F4
> setkeycodes bf 63     # Open  -> F5
> setkeycodes c0 64     # Close -> F6
> setkeycodes c1 65     # Reply -> F7
> setkeycodes c2 66     # Fwd   -> F8
> setkeycodes c3 67     # Send  -> F9
> setkeycodes a3 68     # Spell -> F10
> setkeycodes d7 69     # Save  -> F11
> setkeycodes d8 70     # Print -> F12
>
> Are there any drawbacks to doing the above?
>

Any feedback on the above suggestion? It may not be a good idea, but if 
so, I'm interested why not. (this message was quickly buried under a 
heap of RC messages).

Mepis works out-of-the-box at bootup with F-lock keyboards, so should 
Ubuntu IMO. Not sure if they use the above keycodes though.