[PLUG] Netbook function keys

[Benjamin Kerensa]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:26:09 -0700
> > Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> dijo:
> >
> >>> Might I ask why you didn't install Xubuntu 12.10 amd64 if you wanted
> >>> XFCE? Your still going to have tidbits that Unity needs if you throw
> >>> XFCE on top while if you use Xubuntu your getting a pure XFCE
> >>> experience.
> >
> >>Ignorance, basically, although the "amd" makes me wonder if it is
> >>suitable for an Intel machine. Thanks for the suggestion.
> >
> > Ignorance and miscommunication. Denis said "Ubuntu" and I didn't
> > realize until after he installed it that he intended to run Xfce.
> >
> > Because his netbook has no optical drive we had to make a bootable USB
> > drive. My computer has Fedora 16 which comes with a utility to make a
> > bootable USB, but it won't work with anything but Fedora images.
> > However, I had previously installed UNetbootin on the recommendation
> > that it could make a bootable USB drive out of any distro image. At the
> > Clinic Sunday was the first time I ever tried to use it. I am happy to
> > report that it made Denis' USB drive bootable with 12.10, exactly as
> > advertised.
> >
> > So Denis, if you want to start over with Xubuntu, install UNetbootin,
> > download Xubuntu, and repeat what we did at the Clinic. No guarantees
> > that it will solve the other issues you have, however, but at least it
> > will not have any unnecessary parts of other desktop environments in
> > it.
>
> Thanks, John.  I have little hope that a fresh install of Xubuntu will
> solve the function key problems, but it is certainly worth a try.  If
> it does not, I will be looking at another choice.
>
> -Denis
>

Denis you could also try to change the keybindings to get them working.

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