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Why does my F12 key turn into a tilde key sometimes?
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Mar 15, 2026988 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I'm using Ubuntu, Yakuake, and VMWare Server 2. I've left Yakuake with the default F12 hotkey, and it's worked perfectly for months. I recently started using VMWare Server 2 to run a couple of Ubuntu VMs, and sometimes, after starting one of those VMs and working with it, the F12 key stops working …
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Fix for: Why does my F12 key turn into a tilde key sometimes?
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VMWare is notorious for having problems with keycode mapping in Linux. The defaults work fine with many normal applications, but things get tricky when you use non-character keys. VMWare has published an exhaustive explanation of the reasons why the…
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