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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject: Re: Windows-on-ARM Laptop Is A ?Frequently-Returned Item? On Amazon
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 17:00:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote at 07:18 this Tuesday (GMT):
> On Tue, 3/25/2025 2:52 AM, rbowman wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:58:02 -0400, Paul wrote:
>> 
>>> I have a $25 Chinese keyboard, and yeah, it has backlight, but the
>>> colors are all wrong. That thing is pretty brutal, as keyboards go.
>> 
>> I've got an Amazon Basics. It has three lights -- caps lock, num lock, and 
>> I don't have a clue what the third one is. 
>> 
>
> Scroll Lock maybe, but I don't know what a Scroll Lock is :-)
>
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_Lock
>
>       "Scroll Lock was intended to modify the behavior of the arrow keys."
>
> The $25 keyboard is more weird, in that it has the three LEDs
> the keyboards have for status, but it uses some sort of icons.
> And I cannot correlate the icons with the named functions. None
> of the icons indicate "Caps Lock" to me.
>
> This keyboard has some additional "rubber buttons"
>
>    Internet, Email, Search, Mute, Vol+, Vol-
>
> And on WinXP, the rubber buttons didn't work. On later OSes,
> the buttons work without needing a third party driver.
> Pressing the Internet button causes the default browser
> to open. I guess this is important. The "Mute" makes some sense.
>
>    Paul


I think those work by having special keyscan codes that the OS looks out
for. On some Linux setups, you need to have a program specifically
running for them.
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