It seems that keyboard layouts are my new favorite topic. Well, it’s really annoying when working with notebooks and searching for keys or pressing some weird combinations because of different positions of keys.

A few days ago I had to work with a notebook with another strange keyboard layout. As I realized afterwards it’s not that unusual on notebooks.

The annoying point about the layout was the position of the Fn key. I’m used to open the Windows menu using the shortcut Strg-Esc (Ctrl-Esc).  On the notebook the most left key was the Fn key instead of the expected Ctrl key. Pressing the Fn key is usually not such a problem. But have a look at the Esc key.

So guess what. I shutted down the notebook more than once.