usb/144414: Apple "Fn" key doesn't work properly

[Steven Noonan]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:36 PM,  <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote:
>>> Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net> wrote:
>>>> Interestingly, my tilde key doesn't work either (though the key
>>>> press is detected, no character shows when the key is pressed).
>>>
>>> Any chance it is configured as a "dead" key?  If you press
>>> tilde followed by n do you get an n with a tilde over it?
>>>
>>
>> Nope. It simply does nothing in the console.
>>
>> But in X11, it does something very odd. Shift+Tilde Key gives me '>',
>> and Tilde Key gives me '<'. And Alt+Tilde gives me... What? I don't
>> even know what action. It's grabbing some arbitrary command in my
>> .bash_history. It gave me the first item in my .bash_history the first
>> time I tried it. Then I tried an arbitrary command ("echo"), and then
>> Alt+Tilde gave me the second command in my .bash_history. Whaa?
>>

Any more ideas/news on this from anyone?

The tilde key thing is especially irritating.

- Steven