Fedora/KDE keyboard woes

2026-06-29 09:25 UTC

Hello people, I have been experiencing some trouble with my keyboard lately since moving from Windows to Linux and have yet to find a proper solution. I’m running Fedora 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop), specifically: Operating System: Fedora Linux 44 KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.27.0 Qt Version: 6.11.1 Kernel Version: 7.0.13-200.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland The keyboard is a NuPhy Halo75 (ANSI-US layout). It has a toggle to switch between Windows and Mac mode/layout and media keys on the function row; I want the function keys to be function keys by default and media keys when pressing Fn. On Windows, I was using the “US International” layout (primarily for Ä/Ö/Ü on Alt+Q/Y/P and € on Alt+5). Now, sadly, on Linux, with the keyboard toggle set to Windows and either the “English (US, intl., with dead keys)” or “English (US, intl., AltGr. Unicode combining)” layout enabled, I can type my precious umlauts etc. perfectly fine, but the function keys always act like media keys, no matter what else I press, and I have not found any way to change that behavior. With the toggle set to Mac, the function keys work fine (as do the media keys with Fn), but I can no longer type umlauts (and what even am I without my umlauts). I enabled the “Alt is swapped with Win” keyboard option, since those are swapped on the Mac layout. From the keyboard preview, the key presses seem to be mapped correctly (left and right alt show up as “Meta L/Alt L” and “Meta R/Alt R”, respectively, the Windows key shows up as “Super L”). I’m probably just missing some option or something, but I’ve looked everywhere I could think of (and, considering I am quite new to Linux/KDE, that isn’t too many places) without luck. My web searches didn’t really turn up anything useful either. So, if anyone has an idea or knows where to look and what to change, that would be highly appreciated! I hope my description of what I’m looking for is understandable. I apologize for the somewhat long-ish post, but if you read this far, thank you :)

Replies (4)

@RogueBanana@piefed.zip 2026-06-29 10:28

In my laptop and PC, it was a bios settings that toggles the FN keys. Try checking there as well.

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@timroerstroem@feddit.dk 2026-06-29 10:51

Several possibilities: As I read the manual Fn+X+F is this keyboard’s equivalent of Fn lock, maybe try that. I believe that AltGr+[ should allow you to type umlauts (at least that works on the GB layout), but I don’t know if that will work on mac mode (I have never used a mac keyboard). Alternatively, you could map the compose key to the print screen key (or some other option you wouldn’t mind losing) and then use that (umlauts should be composed using colon+letter, as far as I recall).

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@ascend@lemmy.radio 2026-06-29 11:59

Are you able to change the configuration with VIA? nuphy.com/…/via-usage-guide-for-nuphy-keyboards When I got my nuphy air 60 everything on the windows toggle was on like the third layer, since I think Mac stuff was the second layer so I just moved everything down one. Libre wolf didn’t work for via so I had to install chromium to edit it

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@eldavi@lemmy.ml 2026-06-29 20:16

there are multiple ways to change how your keyboard behaves in linux and others in this post have already shared w you what the most common methods are. i want to share w you the lessons i’ve learned from almost 15 years of trying to make mac keyboards act like mac keyboards on linux on my mac computers: there’s no single unifying keyboard schema that will work with mac keyboards across all apps in linux, you will have to implement tweaks for every single thing you use beyond your x-server utilities/apps and you’re out of luck if you’re a firefox user). even if you’re successful in getting your mac keyboard to work exactly as a mac keyboard, an update somewhere will break something and it’s almost always a kernel or x-windows update. distros maintainers who build w mac in mind will be ones to help the most. it was yellow dog linux when i did it, so i would try with Asahi guys before trying anything else. and i hope that you have better luck than i did.

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