On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 13:22:30 -0600 Darrell Anderson via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I browsed the tdeutils/kmilo code but did not find anything obvious with > how Fn keys are mapped or detected on Thinkpads. If I'm reading the code correctly, it isn't detecting your key presses per se at all. If you fish through the READMEs, it looks like kmilo's Thinkpad support was at least in part carried over from an application called tpb ( http://www.nongnu.org/tpb/ ), whose developers reverse-engineered what the extended keys were doing by observing nvram. kmilo seems to be using offsets and bitmasks hard-coded into the ThinkPadMonitor::getNvramState function in kmilo/thinkpad/thinkpad.cpp to determine what the nvram contents mean. I think there are instructions somewhere on the tpb site for monitoring nvram. That seems to be what you would have to do to derive a new set of magic numbers that work with your T580. It's a weird and brittle system, and to be honest, I'm surprised it works at all on modern hardware. E. Liddell ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
