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I'm using a Debian derivative with xmonad on my laptop (Lenovo X230). I have a docking station and an external keyboard and trackball connected to it. The keyboard is the Kinesis Advantage. Everything was working fine, when suddenly, F3 and F4 stopped working through the external keyboard. Meaning, that the hotkeys I have them mapped to vix xmonad are not responding. However, they still works on laptop directly.
I ran "showkey -k" and mapped out the F keys on both keyboards. Here are the results:
|-----+---------+--------|
| Key | Kinesis | Laptop |
|-----+---------+--------|
| F1 | 59 | 59 |
| F2 | 60 | 60 |
| F3 | 165 | 61 |
| F4 | 164 | 62 |
| F5 | 63 | 63 |
| F6 | 64 | 64 |
|-----+---------+--------|
For some reason, F3 and F4 emit different keycodes when pressed on the external keyboard then on the internal laptop keyboard. I've tried resetting the Kinesis keyboard, but nothing seems to change.
Would anyone happen to have any clue what is going on?
Thank you
Rik: YOU ARE THE MAN! – oneself – 2013-12-23T00:56:03.593