Fn key -
by Bob Goodwin
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I have an old Dell E4310 Latitude portable I've installed Fedora 32 on.
it works but I would like to run it with an external keyboard,
monitor,and track ball. Those things mostly workexcept that it wants to
run the external monitor at the display settings for the little 14"
screen. In order to fix that problem I want to be able to operate a
toggle display function that uses "Fn + F8" and there is no Fn key on
the standard keyboard. Xev shows nothing for the Fn key on the portable.
I thought I would just remap the external keyboard but I have no idea
what to do to change that. I found a suggestion googling to use the key
to the right of delete, that does not work.
Does anyone know how to produce "Fn" from a standard desktop keyboard?
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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
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3 years, 8 months
KDE Plasma "For only this specific display arrangement"
by Leander Hutton
Hello all, is the "For only this specific display arrangement" in the KDE Plasma spin of F32 actually functional? I have 15" HiDPI laptop that I dock with a Thunderbolt dock to a non-HiDPI external display. Since this machine has an nVidia card (not my first choice just what I ended up with) I'm stuck on an X11 session so mixed DPI isn't going to really work. I scale my internal display at 175% and the external at 100%.
I thought the solution would be to disable the internal display and just have the external on while docked. I've tried configuring the internal display to 175% and checking the "For only this specific display arrangement" radio button while un-docked and configuring the external display connected and internal disabled with that box checked but it never seems to actually work. As soon as I disconnect from the docking station the internal display re-enables as it should be it's still scaled at 100%. Even restarting doesn't fix it, I have to change it again in the display setting and reboot. Happens the other direction too, if I reconnect to the dock the internal display disables and the external display is still scaled at 175% until I rescale and reboot.
GNOME will remember these settings even on X11 but GNOME doesn't do fractional scaling so I lose a good bit of real estate on the internal display at 2x. My next option seems like xrandr. Anyone else get this option to work in the Plasma spin?
Thanks!
Leander
3 years, 8 months