[RESPONDED] Mapping function keys/hot keys for screen brightness on linux (and touchpad smooth zoom?)

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@Timothy_Olson

I prefer the Fn to be on “hotkey” mode

Simplest solution I know of is to use fn lock. Press fn + esc, that should do the trick. same to undo it.

@Timothy_Olson

So far, all three volume keys work under F1, F2, and F3, the Pause/Play works under F5, the Screen Display under F9, and Print Scrn under F11. I have no luck with F4 (Rewind), F6 (Fast Forward), F7 (Lower Brightness), F8 (Raise Brightness), F10 (Airplane Mode) or F12 (Framework Logo, not sure what this is supposed to be for).

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[SOLVED-GUIDE] 12th gen not sending XF86MonBrightnessUp / Down

this is a linux kernel problem that is kind of tricky to solve. As the way the linux kernel is written devices can be either registered as a hid-sensor or libinput device, but we have a compound device that is both. If you look at dmesg on boot you will see the ec hid endpoint is registered as a libinput device and then taken over by the hid-sensor-hub driver. I have a thread with some of the linux hid subsystem maintainers, and the conclusion is the way the Linux Kernel is currently written, …

Not sure why others hotkeys are not working, maybe wrong keyboard layouts is selected?
I’m also on KDE Plasma, mine is selected to Generic 104-key PC. I am using a British English Keyboard if that matters.
Hopefully someone else can chime in about this.

@Timothy_Olson

I am used to being able to do a 2 finger zoom in and zoom out much like on a phone, but I don’t know how to get this feature to work in either X11 or Wayland

I know Wayland has support for gestures in KDE. Double check the touchpad setting just to be sure. I do have tap-to-click enabled, rest was as is. I can use pinch to zoom in and out.
Hope this helps.