If I want to actually mute the microphone on my Chromebook, I now have to press the Everything key and my new “F10” key at the same time. There’s a downside to this change, of course. And that stopped the monitoring app I was using. On the Chromebook I was using, the microphone mute key is the 10th key, so pressing that sends an F10 key press. Of course, you’ll have to count over to the right function key since the keys all have ChromeOS-specific purposes. Once you do that, your Chromebook keyboard will turn the standard ChromeOS top row keys into function keys. Look for the “Treat top-row keys as function keys” option and enable it. To use function keys on a Chromebook, navigate to Settings -> Device -> Keyboard and you’ll see this screen: Tucked away in the ChromeOS settings is a solution. To exit, or Quit, that monitoring program, I needed to press the F10 key on my keyboard. You can see the menu commands at the bottom of the remote Terminal. And the monitoring program I was using to check the CPU and memory usage on the server requires function keys, as shown below. I was remotely accessing the server for this site from my Chromebook. Here’s how to use function keys on a Chromebook, since Google doesn’t explain this in any help article I’ve found.įirst, here was the situation I was in. But ChromeOS does support this feature if you need it. Chromebook keyboards don’t have any traditional function keys, in fact. I recently ran into the situation of needing to hit the F10 key on my Chromebook.
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