three finger salute

[Scott Holder]

Rob Clack wrote:

> Thanks to several of you who responded and I have found the answer;  
> my (recently acquired) keyboard has an F-lock button I've never 
> encountered before, which, it turne out,  enables and disables the 
> function keys.  Soon as I hit it, up pops a little indicator light and 
> lo! my function keys all work as intended.
>
> The Logout option on the main menu would only log me out as a user.  
> The purpose of using Ctrl/Alt/F1 is to get to a session where I can 
> log in as root so I can shut the machine right down, which I do every 
> night.
>
> Many thanks.
> Rob 

I spent quite a lot of time fiddling with my keyboard setup before 
remembering the f-lock key on my Logitech Cordless Elite. Love the 
keyboard, but that's a bit odd :)

Incidentally, any reason you do it that way and not from X?

Scott Holder
___________________________________________________
This message is from the kde mailing list.
Account management:  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.