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Lenovo/Thinkpad Keyboard Issue

On my Lenovo/Thinkpad X61s the Esc key is directly above the F1 key.

Unless I'm looking directly at it I'm constantly bumping the F1 key when I reach for Esc.

Any way to reassign F1 so that it does nothing unless "helped" with extra keys, like Ctrl-Alt, or whatever.

Or maybe stuff some cardboard under it ?:-) ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson
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Later versions of the BIOS on some models apparently allows remapping.

"The bios swap for the function and ctrl keys is now implemented by Lenovo! If you have a newer Lenovo laptop (mine is a thinkpad x201), you can find the option to switch them under the "configure keyboard and mouse" options. (For my laptop, I access the Bios by pressing the blue "ThinkVantage" button while the computer is booting up).

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JW

Damn. Screwed that last one up.

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JW

Thanks, JW, looks like a winner! ...Jim Thompson

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| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
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Jim Thompson

It was possible to remap any key on the original IBM PC XT keyboard. But that was 30 years ago and I have not needed to do it much in recent years so do not know the current position.

It was easier to eventually accept what there was than try and keep to older ways ;-)

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John G
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John G

Get yourself a USB or wireless keyboard that fits your fancy..

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Jamie

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Jamie

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Just pop the key cap off.

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Ralph Barone

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Good one.

Another is simply "presence of mind whilst typing". And since it is an other than normally struck key, when one does hit it, one would think one could do so cleanly...

...The mean old fart must still be drunk. Any monkey can hit the key he desires to hit. Maybe his 'better hag' is haggling with his dick... and a pair of tweezers.

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TunnelRat

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You got it!

Guess how I sometimes disable that dreaded caps lock key ...

True Arizonians probably do it the classic way: Get 9mm Glock out of drawer, aim at F1 key ... *BANG* ... and it's fixed :-)

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Joerg

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Might be a wee problem when you need F1. Better: Take a piece of cardboard, bend three times, slide over F1 key like a sawed-off chimney ... done.

Sometimes low-tech solutions are the ticket.

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Joerg

Made a Macro in MacroExpress... assigned F1 as "blank" when PSpice Schematics is running. Success! Bump F1 while reaching for Esc... nada ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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                                         [On the Road]

| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
| Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             |
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

You should have made it 'CTL G' ;-)

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Michael A. Terrell

Am I remembering correctly... "bell" ?:-) ...Jim Thompson

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                                         [On the Road]

| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
| Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             |
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

I had a similar problem with my TP R61i, kept hitting the page back & page forward keys instead of the left & right arrows just below them.

If you're running Win XP or 2000, there's a built-in key remapping function. Check out:

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You have to find the right key codes (Google is your friend here :-) ) and it just remaps raw keys, so I don't think you can add Ctrl/Alt/etc as a "shift" key, but it's worked well for me so far.

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Alan W

Remapping doesn't work for the Fn keys, but see...

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for how I fixed it. ...Jim Thompson

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                                         [On the Road]

| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
| Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             |
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

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The F1 key typically takes you to a help screen. Real men don't ask for directions. Ergo...

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Ralph Barone

Schematics

Yes. It won't do anything, except tell you that you hit the wrong key. :)

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Michael A. Terrell

Yeah, right. Cardboard fits real easily between the tightly spaced keys on a critically area managed surface like a laptop keyboard.

Not very likely... on ANY 'sides'.

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FatBytestard

Just tried it on the teeny tiny Samsung NC-10 netbook here on the desk. Because I know it works on the caps lock key (dunnit a few times). Sure enough, also works on the F1 key. On the road I don't use cardboard but

4x folded and somewhat wrinkled regular paper.

Now don't make it too thick and force it in, that can pop the key right off.

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Joerg

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