Re: [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5
On Sun, 7 Jul 2024, at 01:56, David Wright wrote:
> To answer the question in the rant, "why the f* does this button
> exist"...
A more fundamental issue can be that some machines have an
option in the BIOS that dictates whether keys (mostly but not
exclusively the F1-F12 ones) which have alternate "Fn+" actions
will either
- by default issue the F1-F12 action, but need you to press "Fn"
as well to get the other action
- the opposite
People who are not programmers typically want the brightness,
volume, play, rewind etc actions most of the time and rarely if
ever want F1-F12 codes.
--
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
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