How to use the "green keys" on the a1 keyboard?

How do i go about using the green keys on the a1 keyboard?

 

What do you mean, the Fn key combination?

Like F5, F6, F7 and F8 ?

 

no like the keys uder esc, ~1234567890-=op[];'\m,./, F11, F12 etcetc

 

Are you in Canada? It was reported that the keyboard of the model sold in Canada has "international characters", has a shorter left shift key and a non standard return key. My guess is that the layout is the CAN/CSA Z243.200-92 standard, a.k.a. "Canada Multilingual" keyboard layout.

Does it look like this?

If so, you'll need to configure the "ca" keyboard layout, "multix" variant if you want to use the accented letters. Check this thread.

My One is due to arrive tomorrow, so I'll report more on that.

 

I got my One. I was wrong, the keyboard layout isn't "Canadian Multilingual".

Just to be clearer: the green characters represents the keyboard layout "French Canadian", to be used by French Canadians. The green characters replace the black characters when the French Canadian keyboard layout is used, but before that it must be configured in Linpus Linux Lite.

Unfortunately, the Acer setup doesn't have an option for setting the Canadian keyboard layouts, I searched everywhere. It must be done manually, using the solution described in this Keyboard map issue thread in the Software - Linux section.

If you just want to type international characters from time to time, you'd be better of using the Compose key. But that's another debate, and I'm out of time.