Since I made my orig­i­nal blog post about using the Apple key­board under Linux two years ago, did a bit more refine­ment to the process.  I don’t think I blogged about it, but did post a few instruc­tions and con­fig­u­ra­tion files to my “notes to myself” wiki at Stack­Over­flow (no, not THAT StackOverflow).

To this day, I have never got the “fn” key work­ing as an insert key.  Look­ing back on the com­ments on that post, nei­ther had any­one else.  This morn­ing, Damien Cia­brini left a com­ment point­ing to his instruc­tions to get the fn key work­ing.  Glanc­ing over them, every­thing looks safe and sane in con­cept.  It’s a bit more low-level than I would like to get right now, see­ing as this would be on my pri­mary work machine and we are in a bit of a crunch right now, so any down­time is too much down­time, but I applaud him in get­ting deep enough into the sys­tem code to fig­ure it out!  A win for Open Source!

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