The original post: /r/debian by /u/rubbish_orb on 2024-11-14 09:57:00.

I’m having a strange problem where f1-f5 just produce A B C D E in the TTY.

I don’t know if that is actually normal behaviour or not because they still work as their function keys in mc but they don’t work in WordPerfect for Unix which is what I’m setting up a cli only laptop for.

To make things even stranger if I run screen or tmux and then run WordPerfect through them the function keys work normally, which makes me think it’s some key binding problem and can be changed. I don’t want to run screen or tmux because then I have a whole new set of keybindinga to worry about.

Does anyone have any ideas? I did find a thread on the archlinux forums that was marked as solved but they just had the wrong keyboard layout selected. I’ve got a UK layout (it’s actually a Chromebook but I’ve tried all the UK layouts)

Any pointers would be most welcome, cheers!

(Debian 12)