usb/144414: Apple "Fn" key doesn't work properly

[Steven Noonan]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:36 PM,  <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote:
> Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net> wrote:
>> Interestingly, my tilde key doesn't work either (though the key
>> press is detected, no character shows when the key is pressed).
>
> Any chance it is configured as a "dead" key?  If you press
> tilde followed by n do you get an n with a tilde over it?
>

Nope. It simply does nothing in the console.

But in X11, it does something very odd. Shift+Tilde Key gives me '>',
and Tilde Key gives me '<'. And Alt+Tilde gives me... What? I don't
even know what action it's grabbing some arbitrary command in my
.bash_history. It gave me the first item in my .bash_history the first
time I tried it. Then I tried an arbitrary command ("echo"), and then
Alt+Tilde gave me the second command in my .bash_history. Whaa?

- Steven