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#1 2013-06-04 12:27:54
- linduxed
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Something is setting the function keys, but I don't know what.
I recently installed Arch on a Lenovo T340s and I've been struggling with getting all the function keys to work. They all give out codes, but I can't seem to get them all to work with acpid. Those problems are a different topic/thread.
What's weird though is that some things are already set somewhere automatically and I'd like to figure out where.
For instance, there's a mute key which works both in X and in console. It's not set in /etc/acpi/handler.sh, neither have added any mapping for XF86AudioMute in Awesome, so it's not that either.
The suspend combination (Fn+F4) also works without any configuration and considering I could configure what happens upon suspend in systemd, I'd guess that it's configured somewhere there, but I'm not sure.
Same thing for wireless toggle (Fn+F5).
The point of me asking is that I figured that it would be a good idea to configure all of these keys in the same place.
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#2 2013-06-12 10:47:20
- David Batson
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Re: Something is setting the function keys, but I don't know what.
Possibly this will help some. Don't have a direct answer to your question.
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#3 2013-06-12 11:57:56
- Trilby
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Re: Something is setting the function keys, but I don't know what.
Some of these could be hardware toggles and/or run from BIOS. The wireless definitely is - it willl not interact with your wireless management software, it simply toggles power to the transciever which can be seen with rfkill.
It's possible the mute key could also be a harware switch for the speakers - but I've never seen this done before. The fact that it works in the console as well would support the suggestion that it is a hardware toggle, but I'm still skeptical.
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#4 2013-06-12 15:45:09
- linduxed
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Re: Something is setting the function keys, but I don't know what.
It could be the case that some of this is BIOS controlled, but so far I haven't been able to figure it out. I'm pretty sure that at least suspend and the WiFi keys are.
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