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  • Re: Windows-on-ARM Laptop Is A ?Frequently-Returned Item? On Amazon

    From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11 on Wed Apr 9 17:00:04 2025
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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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