Minor glitch after replacing windows with chrome on laptop- f keys "off by one"

joe dokes

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Jul 18, 2005
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When my workplace upgrades the tech, we are free to rummage through the recycling area, which has given me many extra monitors, keyboards and wires over the years. They recently abandoned a bunch of HP mt42 thin clients. Probably c. 2016 or so. They were fine when hooked up to the workplace enterprise network but, as I found out, close to useless as stand-alone laptops. Having too much time on my hands, I replaced the Windows OS with ChromeOSFlex. The results have been fantastic, turning the laptop into a useful, general purpose around-the-house device. The only annoyance -- and its admittedly minor but nevertheless triggers me -- is that the hotkeys on the HP keyboard are now all "off by one." For example, printed on the f6 key is the increase brightness icon, but that one actually decreases it, as printed on the f5 key. (which now shifts the display to "multiple windows." ) Or volume decreases with the f9 (volume increase printed on it) and increases with f10 (which has the mic mute icon on it) and so on. This is obviously not a big deal, as all the functions work. The interweb searches have been generally unsatisfying -- mostly dealing with simply enabling or disabling the function keys entirely via Chrome. The HP settings are mostly gone, unless I pound the esc key during startup. But I'm not big on going blindly into those settings (except for booting from the thumb drive to replace windows)
Any thoughts?
 
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