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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by meekah@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world

I recently bought a Drop ENTR, and I would like to use the media keys. On the drop.com website it says that using FN + the F-keys should work, but “Fn hotkeys may work with Windows operating system only.”. Well, for me it doesn’t work. Any ideas as to why that could be, or how I could go about creating a workaround?

obligatory I use arch btw

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[-] Dima@lemmy.one 2 points 2 weeks ago

You should be able to see what key codes the OS is receiving, but I don't remember how, will try to update this later with a link

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Good idea! I found the command sudo showkey -k and found out which key codes are triggered by the FN+F-key combos. It seems the keycodes for FN+F4 and FN+F12 are already mapped by KDE. I think I'll be able to work with this, thanks!

this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
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