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Auto-enable FN-toggling for the first N FN keys
How can I auto-enable FN-toggling for the first N FN keys? F7-F12 on my keyboard are used for audio control, while, many games that I play, use the lower FN keys. Therefore, I'd like to relieve myself of the need to hold down the FN key for F1-F6. In other words, I'd like to change the default FN key state for those keys only.
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BIOS Fn / hotkey hack
There is another way, although it doesn't sound like something I would like
- assuming your BIOS will permit (my previous Acer did, this doesn't), you toggle the need for Fn on all function keys
- then you associate F7~F12 as hotkeys to do the audio tasks
- lower F1~F6 are liberated
The cost is that the original F7~F12 are now inaccessible, because with Fn they do the same thing.
Maybe you can programmatically switcheroo all the hotkey settings together? All sorts of monsters ride on DBus, see dbus-monitor, so perhaps this is another.
External keyboard
A relevant aside: I don't like this Acer keyboard and I wish it was easier to evaluate keyboards before teleshopping.
Another answer for both of us is an external keyboard. Ergonomics also recommends this practice, so the laptop screen can be raised to eye level.
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