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commands work in terminal but don’t work if added as a custom keyboard shortcut

After things like xbacklight, light and acpilight didn’t work, I tried to add a custom shortcut for brightness control as my function keys don’t work. I found a workaround on YouTube which helped to ...
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Cannot change keyboard backlight with dbus-send

I have kde desktop environment, and Fn + F3 / F4 buttons cannot change keyboard brightness. I also assign other keys to increase or decrease keyboard brightness in global shortcuts menu, but its not ...
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What is the best practice for defining different shortcut keys for separate keyboards?

Context I have Razer Blade 14 laptop, and I use a Apple Wireless Keyboard (version 2). The Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts section only allows me to define one keyboard layout for both keyboards. ...
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XModMap Key Remapping Not Totally Working

I have a Mac Keyboard I am using with new version of Ubuntu. Whenever in a web browser, I try and hit the F5 key to naturally refresh the page but in Ubuntu this key seems to be mapped to Keyboard ...
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Remap Fn+F3 from XF86Sleep to XF86MonBrightnessUp

I have got a new laptop which is Toshiba Sattelite Pro R50 and I've installed Linux Mint 17.1 on it. After a while it turned out brightness buttons are mapped incorrectly. Fn + F3 is mapped to ...
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Something weird is happening with Fn keys

I have an Asus N56JR with NVIDIA GeForce 760M. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. There are a few things wrong with my Fn keys. For one the brightness (controlled with Fn+F5 and Fn+F6) do not respond at ...
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