On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright@gmail.com> wrote:

On 06/23/2014 03:20 PM, JD wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Laing, Robin
> <Robin.Laing@drdc-rddc.gc.ca <mailto:Robin.Laing@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>> wrote:
>
> On 2014-06-22 13:20, JD wrote:
> > Using Mate on FC20, with latest updates.
> > Cntrl-Alt-F keys never worked from the very first login into
> Mate Desktop.
> >
> > These are the installed mate packages. Am I missing something?
> >
> > It my be worthwhile to note that at the login screen,
> Cntrl-Alt-F keys DO
> > WORK!!
> > After login, into mate desktop, they stop working.
> >
>
> Is there something that is happening to the keyboard mapping? My
> keyboards require a function key to be set to use the Function
> keys. Is
> this being reset when Mate starts?
>
>
> showkey can be used to see if they are working.
>
> On my keyboard, if the F lock button is not pushed, then the keys send
> anything.
>
>
> xkeycaps as well.
>
>
>
>
> My KB is the laptop's KB (Dell Latitude E6500)
> There is no F-Lock key that I can see.
> Tried showkey and pressed Cntrl-Alt-F2
>
>
> # showkey
> kb mode was ?UNKNOWN?
> [ if you are trying this under X, it might not work
> since the X server is also reading /dev/console ]
> press any key (program terminates 10s after last keypress)...
>
> By the above warning, it seems useless to try showkey under X
> But here goes ....
>
> keycode 29 press
> keycode 56 press
> keycode 60 press
> keycode 60 release
> keycode 56 release
> keycode 29 release
>
> And still no effect.
>
> xkeycaps fails to detect my type of keyboard and assumes a 101 key PC
> keyboard,
> which is not the case.
>
> The GUI does not allow scrolling the KB type list so I can select the
> right KB.
> I tried to scroll it with the mouse and with the up/down arrow keys to
> not avail. I tried to drage the scroll bar of each columns in the KB
> config GUI,
> again to no avail.
>
>
maybe modify your keyboard layout??

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/37617/how-to-change-the-keyboard-layout-permanently/

If you didn't have the graphical way or localectl. You could edit or
create the file /etc/locale.conf and if you were en_US.UTF-8 (replace
with the Spanish-Latin America equivalent). You would place in
/etc/locale.conf

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

Also you would edit or create the file /etc/vconsole.conf and if you
were in the U.S.A (replace with the Spanish-Latin America equivalent).
You would place in /etc/vconsole.conf

​The real question is: Why
                did not Anaconda correctly detect my KB type

so that programs like
                xkeycaps would not have to guess the wrong KB type?