Control-Home / Control End Keys

I agree with this post. I can see how you (@Dell) would be reluctant to make this an easily selectable option as having keys not doing what is printed on them will confuse people.

But, I think the xps13 got popular among code developers because of it's "out of the box no headache linux supporting well specc'ed machine", you could even buy it with ubuntu etc. These people code, and they need code maneuverability. I absolutely loved the feature on my previous xps13.

Please, try to keep those customers (like me) and somehow add this feature.

If this is somehow problematic for Dell to implement, I propose an alternative solution:

Bind Fn-PageUp/PageDown to Home/End instead.

I've seen this implemented on one other laptop line.

I too have this problem. I own an XPS 13 9380 (2019).

I had an XPS 13 9350 (2016) from a couple years back and I've been following the XPS 13's that were released after mine and they all had the same keyboard layout. And then suddenly, right the laptop I purchase has the Home and End keys moved out, and the Page Up and Page Down moved out as well.

It bothers me even more that my work laptop is an HP, and it has the same keyboard layout I was used to. I code in vba, so hitting Home and End is a pain. The Page keys are also a pain.

So it bothers me that I have to keep in mind where the different keys are placed on both laptops when typing.

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To move the cursor to the top of the document, use this key combination: Ctrl + Fn + ←Home.

To move the cursor to the end of the document, use this key combination: Ctrl + Fn + End→.

If the screenshots are correct, then it seems the keys are back to normal: https://www.techradar.com/reviews/dell-xps-13-2020

Home/End occupy the same physical keys as F11/F12.  Also, the far left/right keys do not have additional markings on them beside the left/right symbols, unlike the up/down keys that contain Pg markings.  This is according to the large and clear picture of the keyboard in this article:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15273/dells-xps-13-gets-ice-lake-13-4-inch-ultrahd-display

I just got my XPS 13 9300 2020 model and extremely disappointed with this problem. I am coming from Surface Book 2 and I do spend most of my time with word. This problem alone will reduce my text document navigation speed maybe 30-40%. 

This is such a let down after spending 2000$ on a laptop that you can't have a basic keyboard feature. 

And what is worse is, seems like people have been complaining about this for more than a year, and yet nobody is taking action to solve it.

No more DELL laptops.

are you guys working on a solution for this by any chance? With the current situation and coding a lot on my laptop, I really feel this issue as it strongly decreases my code maneuverability

I don't know how much good this will do, but there is a Dell Rockstars section of the forum that contains a "Product and Service Ideas" subsection.  Since Rockstars are ostensibly meant to be a conduit to Dell, I just created a thread there urging Dell to bring back Fn+Left/Right as Home/End.  It could easily be done with a firmware update, and even if Home/End are labeled on top row keys and the Left/Right keys aren't labeled as Home/End, there's nothing wrong with having two different ways to trigger those functions.  In fact, I used a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 2 that implemented that exact design.  It has top row keys labeled as Home/End, but Fn+Left/Right also triggers Home/End.

I can't see any possible downside to Dell replicating Lenovo's design here.  Given that Fn+Left/Right currently does nothing on the affected systems, and a firmware update to add this would be a trivial amount of work, and NOT having this functionality is leading to frustrated users, system returns, and lost sales, the cost/benefit equation here is a no-brainer.

I hope this goes somewhere, because as a heavy user of keyboard shortcuts myself, this would be an absolute dealbreaker for me personally.

Can confirm that on my shiny  XPS 13 9300 (2020 edition), I cannot use fn-left or fn-right as "home" or "end". Not even under Linux where I could remap the keys.

fn-left and fn-right don't even send any event codes, meaning that the firmware ignores it.

Dell tried hard because the new keyboard is _good_ and the 16:10 display ratio is great for text manipulation. However it's these details that cripple it. Which goes to show that if you're really concerned about coding or text editing, you're better off with a Lenovo laptop. 

Microsoft also manages to have dedicated home and end buttons but ALSO puts them on fn left+right arrow. It seems so easy, why can't Dell do this?  So disappointed about this on my 9300.