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

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.
 

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Scroll Lock maybe, but I don't know what a Scroll Lock is :-)
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_Lock
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      "Scroll Lock was intended to modify the behavior of the arrow keys."
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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.
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This keyboard has some additional "rubber buttons"
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   Internet, Email, Search, Mute, Vol+, Vol-
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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.
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   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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