[ltp] T520 Linux Mint / button ThinkVantage

[Иван Ниагара]

It's simple, but it works.

Thank you!

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С уважением,
Иван Владимирович Ниагара
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Best regard,
Ivan Niagara


пт, 19 авг. 2022 г. в 16:27, Marius Gedminas <marius at gedmin.as>:

> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 05:26:25PM +0700, Иван Ниагара wrote:
> > Many years I have used the T520 with linux.
> > I have an idea to hang some job on the blue button "ThinkVantage" on the
> top of
> > the notebook keyboard.
> >
> > I suppose, this button has a different interrupt code, not as another
> button on
> > the keyboard.
>
> I'm not sure how it's all wired at the hardware level, but the Linux
> userspace sees a regular key event.
>
> I've always mapped it to lock screen.
>
> > The jobs may be:
> > - turn power off
> > - erase some files or memory
> > - etc.
> >
> > Is it possible?
>
> Sure.  How, specifically, depends on your desktop environment.  I use
> GNOME so I'd do it from gnome-control-center -> Keyboard shortcuts.
> If you want a custom action ("erase some files", I'm not sure how you'd
> erase "memory"), you can create a custom shortcut that runs a shell
> script that can do whatever you want.
>
> Regards,
> Marius Gedminas
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