Virtual terminals?

[krishna.murphy]

@krishna

My laptop has a setting in setup (bios)
that toggles the operation of the function keys. You might
look into this aspect, since you don't seem to be getting
the response you expect from the function keys.

Thanks for the thought! I've looked around in the several BIOSs involved (3 machines, I think) and didn't see that kind of functionality. Since it's on multiple machines, I figured it was something others would have seen and reported, perhaps.

Cheers!
Krishna