XPS 13 9300 Home and End keys

If anyone is looking for an alternative way to use Home/End keys, here is a guide on how to repurpose the Caps-lock key as a modifier key that turns the arrow keys into Home and End (on X11-based Linux). I like this better than using other keys (Windows/Meta, Alt, Left Shift etc.), as these keys all have their own purpose already. This method also registers a custom keyboard layout, which you can select permanently for your entire system, and switch on/off whenever you want.

This method modifies XKB keymaps, so it is not trivial and partially dangerous, but is not also possible to recover from configuration errors. Please comment on the Gist or write me a message on Github, if you have any remarks or fixes.

https://gist.github.com/antongulenko/9e4b4251e77b34e281caaf4cf3f63bcf

They have finally added this in BIOS Version 2.0.0 on XPS 13, 9310:

Enhancements:
- Added a warning message to reconfirm when you disable secure boot in the BIOS setup menu.
- Added secondary function key that is Fn+Left as Home and Fn+Right as End.
- Updated the Embedded Controller Engine firmware.
- Updated the Intel processor microcode.

Yep, but 9300 is still lacking this feature. DELL PLEASE give us Fn+Arrows switch!

WIndows 10 powertoys - you can re-map whatever keys to wherever you like. Check MSFT and Github for details. 

I don't believe that is correct. FN-key can't be detected by any OS, thereby can not be used for remapping.

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3219

Whoops! Sorry!

I'm not sure what happened (maybe a latest update) but as of 6 May 2021, on my XPS 9310, when I hit "FN" + Left / Right it does Home / End. 

I was so surprised it worked. Anyone else discover this welcome change?  

Can I ask anyone with this problem to take a look at post ? Maybe if we make some noise someone would notice the problem here ?

Forget about it. Just don't buy any more laptops from Dell. Better don't buy anything from Dell at all. It doesn't deserve our money. Such negligence and stupidity means product and engineering team simply doesn't care. Dell will better spend some $$$ on buying fake reviews on YouTube rather than spending several hours and provide a BIOS option.

* Rubbish thermal paste (throttling out of the box)

* Rattling sound speakers

* Lots of bloatware

* Dying batteries (within the first 6 months)

* Sound/audio software is a total c.r.a.p. (f.y. d.e.l.l)

* Non-existent support

* No bios updates or further software improvements (other than critical ones Dell has to provide by law)

Paid actors from tech review websites and YouTube channels will never mention any of that.

Truly a premium product.

Some time ago I will strongly disagree with you, but now not so sure. I personally have almost all precision models until my current 5750 (5500, 5520, 5530) and was quite happy with them. Yes the thermal paste is incredibly low quality, but I can live with that, but I pay for highend machine for a reason of good support and if Dell gives me a you finger with so small request (and this is second time as the 5500 model has DSDT error reported and described to support team and hey they fixed it in more recent models and gives ma a solution like "buy new model" and refuses to fix older 5500) it feels like kick in the balls not like a good smooth support.

So we have another BIOS update 1.7.0 for the 9300 and still no fix. Anybody knows if the 2.x version is coming to 9300 like it did to 9310? @jphughan ? Thanks!

The latest BIOS update for the 9700 fixed the problem. Yayyyyy

Good that the XPS17 users have had a fix. Us XPS15 (9570) users are still waiting Zzzzzz. 

Only been 14 months though.  Maybe Dell needs some better BIOS devs if they're finding it this difficult to figure it out