ThinkPad Hotkeys

[Sven Lankes]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:35:52PM +0100, Felix Kaechele wrote:

>> this one might be handled by the bios but as I don't
>> have a touchpad I cannot test this.
 
> It is not handled by the Embedded Controller (EC). It emits an X event: 
> XF86TouchpadToggle

I'll check again but I'm pretty sure it didn't do that for me (checked
with xev).

>> 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.

> This is not the button to eject an optical medium. It is used to eject 
> your ThinkPad from the Dock/UltraBase. This event should be handled by 
> acpi/udev. I will test it when I get home. It does not emit an X event 
> though. Also there is no good Docking support in any DE at the moment. 
> For example when undocking, whatever responsible for device management 
> should unmount the filesystems that are on devices connected to the dock.

Good to know.

And overall I agree. It's gotten worse with the F13 Kernel/Intel-Driver
- on F12 I could at least manually (using a script that calls xrandr)
enable the external and disable the internal display on dock. Currently
I have to reboot on pretty much each dock/undock.

I haven't gotten around to really debug/report this.

>> Sleep&  Suspend:
> This is the most annoying. I just expect those buttons to work.

What worries me the most is that apparently distributions like OpenSUSE
and Kubuntu have this fixed (maybe using ugly hacks) - without trying to
properly upstream it :(

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