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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by vladvasiliu on Thursday August 18, 2022 @10:27AM (#32510114)
> The F-keys default to the FN row, not the F1-12. You can change that with a command I completely forgot and just copied once to a startup script.

    > cat /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf
    options hid_apple fnmode=0
I think this has recently (Linux v5.19) changed to have F1-F12 by default.
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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by unsafecast on Thursday September 01, 2022 @09:14AM (#32675797)
I just looked in my startup and this is what I have:

    echo 0 | doas tee /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode
But it's good to know where the permanent configuration lives, thanks!
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