Problem with Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn function keys
Submitted by zca..@..ail.fm
Assigned to Xorg Project Team
Link to original bug (#100757)
Description
I'm having a problem with the Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn keys on my Dell Inspiron i3162. These are not dedicated keys on this laptop; they are activated using the function (Fn) and arrow keys. In a tty terminal these keys work just fine. However, after I start X I can use each exactly once and then they never work again unless the X server is restarted.
I also can't get anything to register with xev or xbindkeys while trying to troubleshoot unless it's the first time I use the key X. And oddly, the output for the key is repeated over many lines. Here's an example.
$ xev | awk -F'[ )]+' '/^KeyPress/ { a[NR+2] } NR in a { printf "%-3s %s \n", $5, $8 }'
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