Fn key appears to have reversed behavior

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Alt-F4 no longer closes the active window, but FN-Alt-F4 does. Also, pressing F4 toggles the microphone on and off.

Brand: LENOVO
Model: 20HES1PW00

CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i7-7600U CPU @ 2.80GHz
Chipset: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:5904] (rev 02)
Graphics: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 [8086:5916] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

RAM: 16125 Mb

QubesOS version: R4.2.4
BIOS: N1QET94W (1.69 )
Kernel: 6.12.54-1
Xen: 4.17.5

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It can be two things:

Either you enabled sticky Fn keys using fn+escape (most lenovo keyboards have a LED to show the status on the escape key now), or your bios was modified and the “function keys as primary” or something like that was enabled, so it’s like you always have Fn key held down and you need to press Fn to disable it.

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You are brilliant! fn+escape fixed the problem. Thank you

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