Post #3468308

2026-06-29 10:51 UTC

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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@boring_bohr@feddit.org 2026-06-29 12:43

Thank you for your answer! I had already tried that before but forgot to mention it, in Mac mode it flips the function/media key behavior as expected; in Windows mode, it does nothing (the function keys still always act like media keys, no matter what) Not quite sure what that would do, maybe I’m misunderstanding you, that seems to just type the angle brackets that are on the layout in Windows mode and nothing in Mac mode I just tried that, and while it does work, it is very unintuitive to me (instead of just Alt+Q to get an ä, it’s now , followed by Shift+’ to get a double quote, and then a/o/u to get the umlaut. That would be suboptimal for me at best, but I’ll keep it in mind as a backup solution I’ll keep looking for and trying some more options :)

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