ThinOS Help

[EpiCheeseTime]

Hello all!

 

We are currently trying to rollout a lot of Dell Wyse 5010 Thin Clients for a school. We have it locked down pretty well and are using an RDP server to host and lock the ability of the students even further.

 

We are still having an issue with the fn + f1 key shutting the thin client down. We do have autopower configured in the even of a power loss, it comes back on, but since it isn't a power failure, the thin client stays off, so this hotkey needs to be turned off. (last step too, go figure)

 

We have Dell Wyse Management Suite installed on a server that the thin clients get their configurations from and we have a couple lines of .ini files in the advanced configuration section added. For example one is KeySequence=yes Ctrl+Alt+down=no to turn off the window switching on the thin client.

 

After a long two phone calls with Dell, they do not even know if it can be down and no where on google can I find anyone that has been able to do it. I can find several docs showing the wrong KeySequences for this thin client (we have 5010).

 

So, anyone out there in the awesome land know how to fix?

 

Please help!

[Jarno.]

Is Fn + F11 a key combination for the OS of the TC self? What OS is the TC running? Fn functions can normally be disabled via a BIOS setting or atleast turn them into normal function keys. F1, F2, F3 you name them which will make that keycombination impossible to make.

[Master Disaster]

Last resort, change the keyboards for ones that don't have Fn keys.

[EpiCheeseTime]

@Jarno. Fn + F1 is on the TC itself, we have all function keys turned off through the windows RDP section. Through the BIOS there are no logical places that the function keys can be placed or changed.

 

@Master Disaster trust me, i want to disassemble all 75 keyboards and take care of it that way. But boss man says no.

[Jarno.]

4 minutes ago, EpiCheeseTime said:

@Jarno. Fn + F1 is on the TC itself, we have all function keys turned off through the windows RDP section. Through the BIOS there are no logical places that the function keys can be placed or changed.

 

@Master Disaster trust me, i want to disassemble all 75 keyboards and take care of it that way. But boss man says no.

@EpiCheeseTime What OS is the TC running? So locally? I'm pretty sure we can just make the OS ignore those key inputs? On linux you can do this with command xev searching the internet for windows now but can not yet find anything

[EpiCheeseTime]

@Jarno. It is ThinOS. So dell proprietary stuff...yay

[Jarno.]

4 minutes ago, EpiCheeseTime said:

@Jarno. It is ThinOS. So dell proprietary stuff...yay

Oh... Nice say no more about those OS's not sure why company's want even to use them but okey Then I'm out of idea's.

[EpiCheeseTime]

@Jarno. You and I both, if we didn't already have all of the keyboards and mice, I would personally pony up money to buy them...haha