In Gnome, I was able to make my media keys work without hitting fn by reassigning them. I honestly don’t even remember how I did it.
Is there a way to do this in Cosmic yet?
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Different question for you - What is the hardware? Some machines like my Lenovo Thinkpad can swap function and media priority by pressing FN+ ESC. Maybe there’s something to be found for your make/model.
Damn, I think I missed this. Anyway, I’m on a System 76 laptop and it does not have the ability to switch the keys in the BIOS. Before, I was doing it with Gnome but I still can’t get it done on Cosmic.
Go to Settings> Input Devices> Keyboard> View and customize shortcuts. This is where you can modify existing shortcuts or add custom ones. There’s Volume keys and Play/Pause etc in >Keyboard shortcuts >System which you can remap. Having said, I do remember changing the need to use the function key first for media/F1-12 keys in BIOS. That reverses whatever they currently do. If you reverse it you’ll need to press function for the F keys then. So depends on what you’re looking to.
Switching function keys and media keys is exactly what I’m looking for. Unfortunately, my BIOS does not offer this feature.
Looking at your instructions, I see XFI6AudioRaiseVolume and a pen beside it which I would expect to allow me to edit it, along with an option to Add Keybinding. If I try to edit the field nothing happens. I expected to simply strike the key that I wanted assigned to that feature. If I want F6 to be volume up then what goes here?
I see how other keys have been assigned, but there is no representation of a function key. Is it F6? f6? function(6)? None seem to work.