Linux keyboard on T60?

[jayeye]

I just received a T60p, and it has the infernal Windows key. Is there some secret FRU number that's a keyboard without the windows key? It's bad enough that I had to pay the "Microsoft Tax", I don't want my fingres to suffer too.

Thanks

/ji

[christopher_wolf]

No, there isn't a "secret" keyboard FRU that doesn't have the Windows Key, all of the T60 Series Thinkpads have that. Just rebind it as a super/meta key modifier in Linux, just about every distro will let you use it.

[Turbo Audi]

Last night I binded the Windows key to execute 3ddesktop. (What a memory hog 3ddesk is!)

[jayeye]

[quote="christopher_wolf"]No, there isn't a "secret" keyboard FRU that doesn't have the Windows Key, all of the T60 Series Thinkpads have that. Just rebind it as a super/meta key modifier in Linux, just about every distro will let you use it. :)[/quote]

That's not the point. It's *annoying*. If I wanted extra keys, I would have kept my Symbolics 3640 :)

Oh well, I'll get used to it. Maybe I'll machine a large keycap and fit it over the two posts... or maybe someone here has a access to a 3D printer I could use?

[christopher_wolf]

Ehh, I hate it too...but there isn't anything that I can do about it moment, so why worry after that? It literally isn't worth wasting time over, especially not hardware modification. Quite a few threads talked about that just a little before the release and during the early months. As long as the keyboard quality stays excellent, I can live with a little extra key there. I have seen systems where people put a Daemon or a Tux logo on it.

[DarkThinker]

Hey jayeye,

We are having a nice discussion about this very issue and I' am trying to see what can be done (basically we are building castles in the sky hehe), but what I really am interested in, is how many people in this forum would like Lenovo to have a T4x style keyboard option for those who would really like to have it, so feel free to drop in your opinion there

DarkThinker

[jayeye]

Do keyboards for different languages differ only in the keycaps they have, or also in their physical structure? I recall using, in the distant past, a Greek Type M keyboard with a key between the Left Shift and the Z keys (really aggravating). Has this practice carried on into laptops?

If so, it would indicate that PC manufacturers are prepared to make shorter runs of keyboard for languages with a smaller number of speakers, and asking for a Linux keyboard may not be such an outlandish request. While we are dreaming, we may ask for the control key to go back to its proper place :)

[DarkThinker]

Do keyboards for different languages differ only in the keycaps they have, or also in their physical structure? I recall using, in the distant past, a Greek Type M keyboard with a key between the Left Shift and the Z keys (really aggravating). Has this practice carried on into laptops?

If so, it would indicate that PC manufacturers are prepared to make shorter runs of keyboard for languages with a smaller number of speakers, and asking for a Linux keyboard may not be such an outlandish request. While we are dreaming, we may ask for the control key to go back to its proper place

I think it's quiet resonable

DarkThinker

[noworrries]

Do keyboards for different languages differ only in the keycaps they have, or also in their physical structure?

At least between US and German keyboard, there is a physical difference. (Shift key on US is about double the width of the German keyboard's. There is another key instead)

noworrries

[whizkid]

Since I'm moving from a 600X to a T60, here's what I miss:

o Being able to turn the thing on WITHOUT opening it.
o Fn+PgUp and Fn+PgDn controlling volume.
o Decent sized space, ctrl and alt keys

"extras" I can do without:
o TouchPad. Please let me buy a bezel without one!
o back and forward keys. AAAAAGH! Thank you so very bloody much for those.

I do actually use the menu key, but rarely the window key... and I am a programmer.