[Ti] Function Key Mapping

[Jerry Krinock]

on Joao Carlos de Pinho <jogme at terra.com.br> wrote:

> To be able to do this, you just need to boot in OS 9, change these settings
> in the Keyboard control panel and reboot in OS X. The changed configuration
> will stick even after restarts. But be prepared to repeat these steps if
> Apple releases an OS X update (10.2.5, 10.2.6, whatever), because the
> previous updates (10.2.1 to 10.2.4) reverted the fn keys to their default
> behavior after the installation process.

Thanks a lot!  It took me awhile to get OS9 working (HD did not have OS9
drivers installed), but the method is this:

Boot into OS9
Control Panels
Keyboard
Function Keys
Check: "Enable Hot Function Keys"
Uncheck: "Use F1 thru F12 for Hot Function Keys"

I submitted this to submitted to http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/

on 03/04/01 20:11, Dennis Fazio at dfz at mac.com wrote:
> 
> This design has a history in Apple's dictatorial style of pushing all control
> to the ruthless one-button mouse and creating keyboards of mass deception
> (which they continually deny they have). A team of system designers from newly
> acquired NeoCon Corp tried to change this but irregular programmers kept
> harassing them on their long walks back to the Mountain Dew machines, and
> though they were eventually pushed into a set of smaller cubicles, they
> torched all the Airport basestations as they moved back, so the update is not
> being completed as soon as originally planned.
> 
I get it, Dennis.

>> On my Powerbook G4, I have much, much better uses for my F1-F7 keys than
>> Apple's brightness, sound, etc.
>> 
>> I would therefore like to reverse the operation of the "fn" modifier key in
>> the lower left, so that F1-F7 do _my_ stuff when I hit them _without_ the
>> "fn" 
>> modifier key, and do Apple's stuff when I hit them _with_ the "fn" modifier
>> key.
>> 
>> I seem to remember that I could do this with an OS 9 Control Panel.  However,
>> there seems to be no way to do this in OS 10.2.4.  System Preferences
>> Keyboard 
>> doesn't have it.
>> 
>> I have been told that I can get what I want it if I boot into OS 9, and flip
>> it in the old control panel.  But it will revert to the defaults every time I
>> upgrade OS X.  Whenever I have to boot into OS 9, it RUINS MY DAY.  Also, I
>> imagine that newer powerbooks will not boot into OS 9.  I say, ARGHHHHHH!!!!!
>> Please add this function to the OS X System Preferences Keyboard.  I really
>> like my 800 MHz Powerbook G4, but someday I might want to buy a new one.  I
>> want to be able to program its function keys to behave the way I want them
>> to.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Jerry