I lose characters because keycode of Fn is same than DEL

["Paul Maier" <svn-user@web.de>]

Hi,

on a a IBM Lenovo Laptop T60 there is a "Fn" key to adjust the screen brightness and such.

That "Fn" key has the same keycode than the DEL key.
Therefore I can't change the Fn key with xmodmap (because I would change the DEL key the same way.)

When I adjust the screen brightness, I lose characters in the editor.
Unfortunately the Fn key REPEATS firing delete while the key is pressed.
And several times I didn't notice the loss before saving and leaving the editor.

Here is the output of xev when I press the Fn key: (Pressing the DEL key would yield the very same output.)


KeyPress event, serial 20, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001,
    root 0x101, subw 0xa00002, time 42594031, (35,42), root:(259,282),
    state 0x0, keycode 107 (keysym 0xffff, Delete), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7f) "<7f>"
    XFilterEvent returns: False


What can we do?

Thank you!
  Paul


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