F9 and F10 only work with fn pressed

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F9 and F10 only work with fn pressed

My F9 and F10 keys only work with fn pressed, whereas all the other top line function keys will work alone.

Is this normal?

Mike

powerbook g4, Mac OS X (10.4.3), iPod mini; XP PC

Posted on Dec 16, 2005 1:32 PM

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Answer 1

Jrsy Man

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Dec 16, 2005 2:11 PM in response to Mike McMahon

Hi Mike,

I'm not certain which function(s) you are referring to. For me, F9 and F10 work for Expose´ while 'fn' + F9 & F10 are for keyboard backlight brightness.

Jrsy

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Mike McMahon Author

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Dec 16, 2005 2:28 PM in response to Jrsy Man

Wow..that's how I play with the keyboard backlight!

It looks as though my keyboard is set so fn+F9 & F10 are expose and F9 & F10 are the backlight.

Is there a way to change do you think?

Mike

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Jrsy Man

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Dec 16, 2005 2:38 PM in response to Mike McMahon

Well for the backlight function I don't believe it can be changed. For Expose´however you need simply to go into System Preferences. There you'll see the control for Dashboard & Expose´. From there you can change the function keys for Expose´ if you want.

Jrsy

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Answer 4

kentojin

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Dec 19, 2005 4:14 AM in response to Mike McMahon

you can switch it so that you have to press fn+Fkeys to control hardware functions. go to system preferences->keyboard and mouse->keyboard, then check the "Use the F1-F12 keys to control software features" box.

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