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Fedora and t2linux: Set `fnmode` to `2` on system startup
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Create /usr/lib/systemd/system/mac-keyboard.service with the following contents:

[Unit]
 Description=mac-keyboard
[Service]
 Type=oneshot
 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "echo 2 > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode"
 ExecStop=/bin/sh -c "echo 1 > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode"
 RemainAfterExit=yes
[Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target

Run the following commands to enable and start the service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable --now mac-keyboard.service
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