Oh. Well, that explains why I can't get the keymap code, thank you.

I guess that explains why it's a fix in the BIOS too, if the BIOS will do it.

But I need the keymap code. Need to do CTRL-C and CTRL-V a zillion times/day, but the distance between CTRL and C and V in this keyboard is too short. If CTRL was an inch to the left, life would be normal & arthriitic effects would be reduced.

Thank you very much, Mike.

Liz

On 3 July 2012 18:32, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
On Tuesday 03 July 2012 17:10:12 E Johnson wrote:
> I can run xev to get the keymap codes, for all keys but this FN key.
> Apparently the FN key won't give any output by itself, at least not using
> this method.

many (most?) keyboards process FN in hardware.  the OS doesn't get a chance to
see it.  so if you do FN+down arrow to get page down, it's the keyboard itself
that is sending the "page down" key.  the OS doesn't see "FN+down arrow" and
translate it to "page down" in software.
-mike