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by mihaaly 244 days ago
Keyboard troubles?!

I wonder if this is related to what I experienced. After the update (update and shoutdown reliably updates and restarts again, does not shut down) a parctice of mine switching Control and Fn keys on my Mac so Control key function gets into the same physical position as Ctrl on the PC keyboard, so using Windwos through Microsoft Remote Desktop and at the keyboard of the Windows computer is a smoother switch, is not working anymore. Windows, through the Remote Desktop does not register the Fn key as Ctrl anymore. The whole thing does not make sense to me. The Remote Desktop software on Mac did not change, MacOS should send Remote Desktop the signal of Control key pressed when pressing Fn, the Windows update shall have no effect, yet the sole change here was the Windows update when this annoying thing emerged. I simply had no time to dive into diagnostics and find the underlying reason, it is less resource intensive and less painfull - but one more annoyance on top of the many concerning Windows use - learning to use different Ctrl button location on Mac and PC keyboard again (done before, before learning the Control <> Fn switch trick).