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Fnbehavior to be changed in any way. Your symptoms don't look like a problem with the BIOS though: the BIOS wouldn't know how to minimize a window. It looks like Fluxbox has mappedF4to minimizing a window. Please post your Fluxbox configuration, and also tell us what Ubuntu release you're using. Do you see the same symptoms on a new account with no Fluxbox configuration? What about with other window managers?Fn. I've seen many laptops that have a BIOS option to choose whether the physical key registers as F1-F12 or the extra function, since a lot of end users don't use the F1-F12 keys. Thinkpad Edge's even do this by default (you need Fn-F1 to get F1). What I meant was if this is the case, finding the BIOS option would be much easier than trying to remap each F1-F12 key individually.