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Title: What do these symbols on my keyboard mean?
Post by: shared4you on Sat, 19 October 2013, 18:57:13

I recently bought a Noppoo Choc Mini. I do not recognize the symbols below the F10, F11 and F12. Does anybody know what they mean?

PS: The arrows on F9 are for swapping Capslock and Control. {F10, F11} are not volume keys! The actual volume keys are Fn+Q and Fn+W (not shown in the picture). So these must be something else.


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Title: Re: What do these symbols on my keyboard mean?
Post by: The_Beast on Sat, 19 October 2013, 19:05:43

I'm guessing volume up, volume down and mute/unmute

Title: Re: What do these symbols on my keyboard mean?
Post by: Rayne on Sat, 19 October 2013, 19:07:58

i believe F10 and F11 are debounce. i have no clue what the F12 is, iv only ever seen it say insert. maybe its the same thing they just use a symbol for it now.

edit: here is a quote from another thread to explain what debounce is, and a link to the thread I got it from.

Quote from: Surnia on Wed, 01 May 2013, 11:12:03

Debounce is how much the keyboard needs to aggregate signals into a single "press" that is sent to the computer.

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=43054.0

Title: Re: What do these symbols on my keyboard mean?
Post by: shared4you on Sat, 19 October 2013, 19:40:52

Ah thanks, the post you linked to is great! I'm convinced that they are debouncing keys

Regarding F12, they seem to register some random keys simultaneously from i,j,k,l,m,n.
For example, pressing 'Q' gives 'km', pressing 'W' gives 'jlm', etc. Wonder what's the point of this?

Title: Re: What do these symbols on my keyboard mean?
Post by: Findecanor on Sat, 19 October 2013, 21:52:51

Debouncing interval? ... That is really fine-tuning.

Title: Re: What do these symbols on my keyboard mean?
Post by: inteli722 on Sat, 19 October 2013, 22:48:48

I'd say F12 is launching your audio program, but that's only because that's the symbol that I see on the little page icon in windows when Winamp is set as my default.

Title: Re: What do these symbols on my keyboard mean?
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 19 October 2013, 23:35:46

This post (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=49186.msg1061421#msg1061421) suggests something else.

Title: Re: What do these symbols on my keyboard mean?
Post by: Nakapfao on Sun, 20 October 2013, 07:20:23

I believe they mean that you will be a first target when the Earth is invaded by aliens  :eek: