ThinkPad Hotkeys

[Sven Lankes]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 04:35:35PM +0100, Gregory Zysk wrote:

>> The good news: At least with KDE 4.4 (which is about to be pushed to
>> -stable and should be available as an automatic update real soon soon)
>> the thinkpad-keys that I care about (brightness and volume) work out of
>> the box.

> They always have :-) 

Nope. Brightness only started to work with qt-4.6 iirc. At least on my
thinkpad.

> That is not the problem. All functioning keys as in Gnome should work.

So what are you missing then?

The only keys that aren't being recognized for me are:

Touchpad on/off (Fn-F8):

  this one might be handled by the bios but as I don't
  have a touchpad I cannot test this.

Eject CD (Fn-F9):

  again this may be handled by the bios - I cannot test
  it either because my x200s doesn't have an optical drive.

Keys that aren't doing anything while they could:

Screensaver: 

  this could maybe lock the screen by default but the KDE
  default for that action is CTRL-ALT-L and as it's not possible in global
  shortcuts to assign two shortcuts for one action I don't know how this
  could be achieved.

Battery:

  This one is interesting - the powerdevil battery plasmoid actually has
  keyboard shortcuts in it's settings and setting it to "Battery" will
  bring up the battery screen when the shortcut is pressed just fine.

  This should probably default to Battery as it's currently not set at
  all. But why doesn't that show up under "Global Shortcuts" in System
  Settings?

Sleep & Suspend:

  I cannot see any way to make those Buttons Suspend to RAM & Disk in
  the Keyboard settings. Anyone?

Display:

  That one is supposed to cycle through Display / External Display. I
  don't think there is anything in KDE to make use of this short of
  calling xrandr directly?
 
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