Is there a way to make the F5-F12 dedicated media keys? Eg. Muting by simply pressing F10 instead of Fn+F10.
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I have this keyboard and I've written an AutoHotKey script to re-assign them to say, Launch Spotify when pressing F9 or play / pause Spotify when pressing F5. It works great. Running Windows 10.
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Have you tried pressing the "FN" and the F12 anf F11 buttons which control the keyboards brightness?
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If you press the Fn key at the same time they work just fine.(Except for the stop key apparently, but you can just hit the play/pause)
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Yes, volume and mute controls as buttons, and play, stop, rewind etc. with Fn function
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huh? why not? Does the fn key not work on your keyboard? Im sure that you can use your keyboard to set up the game and then use the Nostromo to game. The device is not a direct replacement of the keyboard, as im sure you know.
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It mostly works out of the box in Ubuntu 14.04.2. The play/pause and volume keys work but the rest of the media keys seem to be a no-op, and only a few keys on the detached numpad work (calculator shortcut, clear, backspace, enter) and I can't figure out how to make the rest work (numlock, 0-9, ., and the operators)
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I use it with Ubuntu 12.04, the media function works out of the box, it works great. The M key is NOT momentary, you have to switch it on and off every time you want to use the media function.It does not have the F1, F2, F3,... keys.
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Maybe I don't know what a "fn" key is, but it has F keys to 16, and several combo keys below "Z" and "X" . Also below "/" and "shift" which do things I don't know how to do. In combination with one another. I don't see any trick to changing the sound, it has volume buttons on the far right, on the top row. The tray it sits in can easily be cleaned with a brush attachment to a vacuum. Just unplug from the iMac, and vacuum it out.
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Michie:When watching a video (such as You tube) hold down the Fn (bottom left of keyboard) key and the Speaker key on the number 0 to mute the Audio, to the right of that if you hold down the Fn key and hit the Speaker down Volume it will play softer and one more key to the right of that hold down the Fn key and Volume up key to increase the volume on the video.Holding Down the Fn key and the play pause key (on the number 8) will stop and start the video.When playing Music tracks all the previous mentioned keys work as mention before but you can also use the next track key Fn (9) and previous track key Fn (7) to navigate back and forth on the tracks.Hope this answer was helpful to you.Mark Michie:When watching a video (such as You tube) hold down the Fn (bottom left of keyboard) key and the Speaker key on the number 0 to mute the Audio, to the right of that if you hold down the Fn key and hit the Speaker down Volume it will play softer and one more key to the right of that hold down the Fn key and Volume up key to increase the volume on the video.Holding Down the Fn key and the play pause key (on the number 8) will stop and start the video.When playing Music tracks all the previous mentioned keys work as mention before but you can also use the next track key... » Read More Michie:When watching a video (such as You tube) hold down the Fn (bottom left of keyboard) key and the Speaker key on the number 0 to mute the Audio, to the right of that if you hold down the Fn key and hit the Speaker down Volume it will play softer and one more key to the right of that hold down the Fn key and Volume up key to increase the volume on the video.Holding Down the Fn key and the play pause key (on the number 8) will stop and start the video.When playing Music tracks all the previous mentioned keys work as mention before but you can also use the next track key Fn (9) and previous track key Fn (7) to navigate back and forth on the tracks.Hope this answer was helpful to you.Mark « Show Less
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No; it is missing the § key, which I use a lot. Plus, there is a trick to getting either the sound or the screen to change intensity.
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there is no series of F1...F4. there are dedicated smaller buttons for particular functions such as light, volume. there is also a FN button to be used in conjunction with two or three other items. the keyboard is excellent & can be bought for under $30 , excellent value.
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I have never used this function but I do not see a key that is designated as an F Lock key. Research tells me it should be locate above the Backspace key but there is no such key on this keyboard.
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The Fn key located at the bottom left, works like a shift key for the symbols in blue. Beyond that I cant help. I havent had any issues with mine but have only had it a few months.
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It does not trigger the F5. You have to set up the F5 at the keyboard or use the mouse feature to select the F5.
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I'm using one right now. The media keys for next/last track, play/pause, stop, and mute all work. The volume knob doesn't, nor do the programmable keys along the top above the function keys. I like the way the keyboard types and I don't use those other keys at all so it isn't much of a detriment to me. I do wish the volume knob worked but that's about it.
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Go (on your mac) to System Preferences...Keyboard and unchecking the box named "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys"
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My techie son did it for me.As soon as you hit the "on" start TAPPING,don't hold the F2 or F1 I don't remember which it was.Good luck.