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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.