How do you press f11 on a 60% keyboard?

Simply hold down the FN key and hit the number of the function key you want.

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Supremely-compact mechanical keyboards like the HyperX Alloy Origins 60 are now considered a must-have piece of kit for a growing number of people in many groups; from digital artists to FPS players. Their small size is great for keeping smaller desks tidy, makes transport hassle-free, and it’s easy to cover with a single hand while drawing or flicking your mouse around with the other. But for people who are used to the lumbering full-size or still-beefy tenkeyless options of mechanical keyboards, the extra keys that are pruned to get to that 40% form factor can be hard to come to terms with. If you’re worried about the loss of the function keys or the arrow block then don’t worry, their functions are still accessible, and here’s how to use them.

The HyperX Alloy Origins 60% Keyboard

FN key

Your new best friend with a 60% keyboard is the FN key. For anyone who has owned a laptop in the past two decades, you’ll know it as that weird little extra key down by Ctrl. As 60% keyboards are basically mechanical standalone versions of laptop keyboards (portability, size, it all makes sense) they use the same sneaky workarounds. The row of function keys across the top of the keyboard then just becomes the number row above the QWERTY block. Simply hold down the FN key and hit the number of the function key you want. Quickly closing your desktop windows would then be Alt+FN+4.

Arrow keys

The desk space reclaimed by a 60% keyboard can be pretty significant.

Some 60% keyboards also use the FN key to make up for the loss of the arrow key block – that’s the standard arrow keys that nobody has used for gaming since Doom and Quake mapped them to aim control, plus Insert, Home, Delete, etc. The layout of these keys generally varies depending on the manufacturer. For instance, the Alloy Origins 60 puts the Delete key on FN+Backspace, which makes sense logically. You’ll also find the arrow keys laid out roughly in their usual shape right next to the FN key, on Ctrl, Alt, Context menu, and /?. The FN key is also used to control other on-board shortcuts. Some put in FN shortcuts for media controls (play/pause, skip, volume control) on letter keys, as well as controls for the keyboard itself. You can change the brightness and color hue of the Alloy Origins 60’s backlit keys by using G through L line on the keyboard, while media controls are the row just below. If you’re finding it hard to keep all this memorized, don’t fret. The keys of the Alloy Origins 60 have their additional FN functions printed right on the keys. Hopefully this guide has made getting a 60% keyboard feel less like losing a bunch of keys, and more like an option that’ll create more room for you to make bigger plays. Once you get used to using the FN keys to access those additional functions, you might learn to love the compactness and portability of a 60% keyboard like the Alloy Origins 60. Nicole Castillo Nicole is a fan of gaming, music, and movies. Feel free to reach her at [email protected] for questions, concerns, or just good music and movie recommendations!

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Is a D7 same as dominant 7?

D7 is short for D dominant 7. The D7 chord is produced by taking the 1 (root), 3, 5 and b7 of the D Major scale. The D7 is the fifth chord in the key of G.

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The D7 (D dominant 7) chord contains the notes D, F#, A and C. It is produced by taking the root (1), 3, 5 and b7 of the D Major scale. It is essentially a D chord, with an added flat 7. The D7 is a popular open chord and used often in the key of D. Is is also commonly played with the root note on the 5th fret of the 5th string (second shape down, in the picture below). D7 is short for D dominant 7. The dominant 7 chord is a significant chord, because it plays a very important function in any given key. The dominant 7 chord functions as a chord that resolves to the first chord in a key. For example, the D dominant 7 chord resolves to the G Major chord (which is the first chord in the key of G)

10 Ways To Play The D7 Chord

If you’ve come to this page just to view some chord diagrams for D7, here they are.

Some Quick D7 Chord Theory

The D7 chord contains the notes D, F#, A and C.

D7 is short for D dominant 7.

The D7 chord is produced by taking the 1 (root), 3, 5 and b7 of the D Major scale. The D7 is the fifth chord in the key of G. It resolves naturally to the G Major chord. The D7 chord (just like all dominant 7 chords) contains the following intervals (starting from the root note): major 3rd, minor 3rd, minor 3rd, tone (which leads back to the root note). The D mixolydian mode can be used when soloing over the D dominant 7 chord.