What are these keyboard symbols? Also, keys not working

Stav Kats · August 9, 2017

Can someone please tell me what the top row keys do?

Also, I have a few keys ("d", "r", "n", "i", "m")that need to be pressed multiple times in order to work. I have had this keyboard for almost 3 years now. Do you think that they have been damaged? I have cleaned it many times.

Thanks in advance!

Spork829 · August 9, 2017

4 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Sleep, not sure, volume down, volume up, and not sure. You usually hit the function key for them to work. Unless you meant the different F keys themselves. They serve different tasks depending on the application or how far into the OS you are. Also, most likely dead keys.

The one on F9 is probably tab, no idea either on the F12 though.

ItsTheDuckAgain · August 9, 2017

just get a new board dude :-)

Stav Kats · August 9, 2017

34 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Sleep, not sure, volume down, volume up, and not sure. You usually hit the function key for them to work. Unless you meant the different F keys themselves. They serve different tasks depending on the application or how far into the OS you are. Also, most likely dead keys.

28 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

The one on F9 is probably tab, no idea either on the F12 though.

No it is not volume up and down, there is a different key for them.

lego4killer · August 9, 2017

"Fn+F9 took me a while to figure out, but it swaps the Capslock key and the Control key. This is a big win if you are an Emacs guy (which I’m not). Fn+F10/F11 are interesting. They control the amount of debounce in the keys. I haven’t played with this feature, but if you start finding that you press a key and it shows up twice, you can likely increase the debounce, and the doubled characters should stop. If you increase debounce too much, though, you may start missing legitimate keypresses. Fn+F12 is totally strange. It seems to reset the keyboard, all the way to being re-identified by the OS. Perhaps it does more, and I just haven’t fully understood it"

source: https://kanyid.org/2014/08/19/noppoo-keyboard-guide/