Shoutbox

My (non-laptop) keyboard has a full-hardware self-contained F Lock button. No program can know when I press it or what the F Lock state is. When t's on, the function keys work like normal. When it's off, it just sends a different scancode for the function keys (they do things like Undo, Redo, Save, Print etc).

You mentioned that the keycode scanner won't detect what keycode is recieved when you use the graphics hotkeys. Try disabling the hotkeys (or changing them) temporarily, and the to find the keycode. I don't think that thge problem is that the shortcut includes FN, it's that it's being used by the graphics driver right now. If you decided to change the shortcut to something that doesn't use Fn, you would have to find out the keycode(s) for the new shortcut before you actually change the shortcut to that.