{"id":394,"date":"2008-11-08T18:01:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T17:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/index.php\/?p=394"},"modified":"2008-11-22T11:04:46","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T10:04:46","slug":"choose-you-laptop-fn-and-ctrl-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/2008\/11\/choose-you-laptop-fn-and-ctrl-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose your laptop: Fn and Ctrl keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be carreful when choosing your new laptop, it can end in a real nightmare just for 2 keys:<\/p>\n<p>Regular Ctrl (strong) and Fn<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image392\" alt=\"ctrl-fn.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ctrl-fn.miniature.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nList of vendors:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Hp\/Compaq<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Acer<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Asus<br \/>\n&#8211; Sony<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Toshiba<\/p>\n<p>Very annoying non conventional layout Fn THEN Ctrl:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image393\" alt=\"fn-key.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fn-key.miniature.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nList of vendors:<br \/>\n&#8211; BenQ<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Asus<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Lenovo<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Fujitsu<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s alternate key, managed by the keyboard controller, you cannot remap or swap it with a software.<br \/>\nAlternatively you can pop it up and use a conductive paint to remap it:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forum.notebookreview.com\/showthread.php?t=272046\"><strong>FN \/ CTRL-Key Switch Mod<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Hardcore mod inside)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be carreful when choosing your new laptop, it can end in a real nightmare just for 2 keys: Regular Ctrl (strong) and Fn List of vendors: &#8211; Hp\/Compaq &#8211; Acer &#8211; Asus &#8211; Sony &#8211; Toshiba Very annoying non conventional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/2008\/11\/choose-you-laptop-fn-and-ctrl-keys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}