Hi, Andreas -
It's the keyboard -- just got a new MS keyboard at work and didn't notice it has an 'F Lock' key at the top, near Scroll Lock. I must have hit wit inadvertently, and thereby disabled the F keys.
These M$ induced keyboard layout changes are a PITA. The US designers of the Windows keys (who the f**k needs them, or even knows their function?) certainly didn't spend a single second thinking about other locales that don't have brackets/braces/backslash as a direct key, but need Alt-Gr for it. I'm still using hand-selected old keyboards that have the Alt-Gr keys still in place, where they have been for > 10 years.
We may be grateful we still don't have a Bill-key instead of 'G'...
Regards, Andreas
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