On 1/2/08, Ben Liblit <liblit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ThinkPads have an extra blue key that has been labeled ThinkPad, Access > IBM, or ThinkVantage over the years: > <http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Button>. On my ThinkPad X61, > this key does not generate any useful behavior by default, and does not > even generate X KeyPress events that I might bind as a shortcut of my > choosing. xev reports nothing whatsoever when I press this key. > However, hald is definitely noticing the event; when running in verbose > it prints: > > addon-acpi.c:189: event is 'ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001018' > > I can also see this event by running acpi_listen if acpid is running. The behavior of this key is controllable from sysfs. See the thinkpad-acpi documentation, section "Hot Keys". The short answer is that you can change the key so that it is reported throught the input subsystem. Once that's done, you can tell the input subsystem to map it to a key of your choosing; for example, I map it to KEY_HELP, so that it brings up the GNOME help program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
