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    How to use and Fn-less keyboard

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by akadoublej, Jun 21, 2010.

  1. akadoublej

    akadoublej Notebook Evangelist

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    I have a T500 for which I would like to use a separate wireless keyboard but it appears that many of the wireless keyboards out there lack an Fn key.

    How can one deal with this? My primary goal is management of multiple monitors through the wireless keyboard.
     
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    Faruk Notebook Evangelist

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    I would also be interested to know the answer to this question! I would gladly remap one of my keys, but I'm not sure if that's possible.
     
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    akadoublej Notebook Evangelist

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    Upon lots more Googling I was able to find that the Fn key when pressed in combination with one of the function keys on a ThinkPad calls an executable so the trick is to determine which executable is being called and then to map it to a key.

    Often the executable of interest is located in one of the numerous HOTKEY subdirectories on your machine.

    Why Lenovo can't put them all in a single location is a mystery to me.
     
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