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ThreeDots
Asked: 2019-08-22 02:05:09 +0800 CST

Is there a way to reconfigure function keys on Ubuntu 19.04?

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I installed Ubuntu 19.04 on HP ProBook 450 G6 and noticed my function keys for increasing/decreasing brightness both act as toggling microphone, the rest works fine (and everything works fine on Win 10). I have two questions:

  • Is there a way to reconfigure actions for those two keys?
  • Is this a bug that I should report to Canonical?
keyboard 19.04 function-keys

1 Answers

    1. open terminal and run xmodmap -pke | grep MonBrightness

    example:

    pratap@i7:~$ xmodmap -pke | grep MonBrightness
keycode 232 = XF86MonBrightnessDown NoSymbol XF86MonBrightnessDown NoSymbol XF86MonBrightnessDown
keycode 233 = XF86MonBrightnessUp NoSymbol XF86MonBrightnessUp NoSymbol XF86MonBrightnessUp
pratap@i7:~$

    1. Copy the lines after = for both BrighnessDown and up

    2. Once the keycodes for fn+f3 and fn+f4 are known

    3. xmodmap -e "keycode xxx = XF86MonBrightnessDown NoSymbol XF86MonBrightnessDown NoSymbol XF86MonBrightnessDown"

    4. xmodmap -e "keycode yyy = XF86MonBrightnessUp NoSymbol XF86MonBrightnessUp NoSymbol XF86MonBrightnessUp"

    once you logout above commands 4 and 5 will not persist..

    to make them persist follow this thread https://askubuntu.com/a/1131511/739431

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