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Thinkpad Keys & Linux

#1 Post by BruisedQuasar » Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:17 pm

Which Linux keyboard settings do people find works best
with the T2X series? Auto-setup put mine on an Eng
105 key desktop setting. Everything works fine, except
my PrintScreen and fn keys (the led & speaker volume
keys work). I just want Printscreen so I can get the
non-destructive warm boot command to work.

I read an Danish Forum post where the team found
every TP T2X series key will work under Ubuntu but they
use the Danish keyboard setting.

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#2 Post by awong » Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:25 pm

i didnt do anything to my settings in ubuntu feisty fawn and my volume keys worked.

The new version gusty it seems a lot of thinkpads have had issues with losing the volume keys working

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#3 Post by BruisedQuasar » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:47 pm

My volume keys work also. Most of my special keys work. The keys that do not work are: the print screen. The fn keys work
except for sleep, wakeup but led light works!

I read a T2X test post on a Dutch Forum. The group reported that every key worked perfectly and the Think Vantage
key was easily set as a hot key. All they said about
the keyboard setting was they used the Dutch and Fin
Keyboard settings.

I plan to go into the key chart and see how exactly Xubuntu
auto set them. My problem may be something as simple as
the keys are set on "disabled"

My Dell (Unbuntu) suddenly began opening screenshot
each time I pressed my down key. I went into Systems>
Preferences>Keyboard Settings and discovered for
some reason my down key in Keyboard Short Cuts was
reset to "enabled" for shortcut to screen snapshot.

Proof Linux is not immune to the crazy snafus that happen
in Windows

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