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Talonly

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Registered: 2026-03-23

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[SOLVED] Lenovo IdeaPad 5 (82LM) F11 Task View key fix

Hello everyone,

I wanted to share a quick solution for anyone struggling with the F11 special key (often marked as Snipping Tool or Task View) on newer Lenovo IdeaPads, specifically the IdeaPad 5 14ALC05 (Board 82LM).

The Problem:
When pressing the F11 key, nothing seems to happen in Linux out of the box. Tools like acpi_listen show no events, and the ideapad-laptop module doesn't register an unknown WMI event in dmesg. It feels like the key is completely dead or blocked by the BIOS.

The Diagnosis:
After some deep diving with evtest on the standard keyboard device (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard), I found out that the key is actually working perfectly fine. Lenovo simply didn't implement it as a standard ACPI or WMI hotkey. Instead, the Embedded Controller (EC) has a hardware macro.

When you press F11, the hardware rapidly fires: Ctrl + Alt + Tab

The Solution:
You do not need a kernel patch, and you do not need to spoof acpi_osi in GRUB. The kernel passes the keystrokes perfectly fine.

You simply need to tell your Desktop Environment what to do with that shortcut.

• In GNOME: Go to Settings > Keyboard > View and Customize Shortcuts > System > Show the overview and simply press the F11 key to bind it. It will register as Ctrl+Alt+Tab, replacing the almost invisible default bind for "Switch system controls" and work flawlessly.

I hope this saves another IdeaPad owner a few hours of debugging ACPI tables!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Lenovo IdeaPad 5 (82LM) F11 Task View key fix

Instead  this getting drowned on the boards, you should consider to add this info to the wiki, e.g. here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop … Pad_series