[ltp] Function Keys on a Thinkpad T41P

[Carl Friedberg]

I've mentioned this before, but it never hurts to repeat,
as no one responded...

In the good old days (TP390E,X; I series), the ThinkPad
Keyboard featured a quasi-numeric keypad, overlaid on
top of the normal keypad; the letters, on the lower right
corner of these keys, was in a light blue that matched 
the color of the Fn key. If you wanted to have a keypress
which is the same as the "Keypad Enter" keypress, you just
held down the Fn key, and pressed the normal Enter key;
voila.

You can get a dumbed-down version of this on modern TP
just by using the Num-Lock (I hope if you care about this,
and have read this far, that you found this miracle by
holding down the shift key and pressing ScrLK (note the
small letters NumLK just above that, on the same key).

Any hints on how to get the old behavior back? Not a 
big deal, but it is useful when in terminal emulation
mode, or x-terms, and connected to various UNIX and
VMS systems...

Carl Friedberg
carl@comets.com
www.comets.com  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-thinkpad-admin 
> [mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin%linux-thinkpad.org@fwd.com] On 
> Behalf Of Daniel Jimenez
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:05 PM
> To: linux-thinkpad
> Subject: Re: [ltp] Function Keys on a Thinkpad T41P
> 
> > Hm.  Have you tried the tpb utility?  That reads the NVRAM 
> on a Thinkpad 
> > and takes various user-definable actions based on what it finds.  I 
> > made it so that pressing the otherwise-useless "thinkpad" 
> button on my 
> > A22p launches an xterm with ntpctl running in it. 
> > http://freshmeat.net/projects/tpb/ , requires the XOSD libraries 
> > though, just do "emerge tpb" or "apt-get install tpb" if 
> you're running 
> > a distro that has sane dependency tracking.  It just might 
> solve this 
> > problem--or it might not.  I don't know for sure.
> 
> Hi Matt, thanks for your response.
> 
> I looked at tbp. It seems like it's use is for remapping "back" 
> "forward" "home" buttons etc. Not working with function keys. 
> I imagine 
> that the functionality I'm looking for is one that is 
> supported with a 
> windows driver.
> 
> I could always reprogram it to modprobe -r my wlan driver :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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