Tablet Hardware Buttons

Tablet Hardware Buttons The Thinkpad tablets includes hardware buttons located on the LCD screen bezel. They are designed to be used when the ThinkPad is converted to the tablet configuration (though they are still accessible when in the laptop configuration).

Buttons

The X41 Tablet hardware buttons include:

• Power (with sliding lock)
• Cltr-Alt-Del [sic]
• Page up
• Page down
• Enter
• Escape
• Screen Rotation
• Tablet shortcut menu

X61 Tablet: picture from here.

X200 Tablet: see below.

Linux Support

The hardware buttons (except power) are recognized by the standard atkbd kernel driver which emits the following scancodes:

Key	X41 Scancode	X60 Tablet Scancode	X61 Tablet Scancode	X200 Tablet Scancode
Page up	0x6D	NA	NA	NA
Page down	0x6E	NA	NA	NA
Enter	0x69	0x69	0x69	NA
Esc	0x6B	0x6B	0x6b	NA
Toolbox	0x68	0x68	0x68	0x66
Rotate	0x6C	0x6c	0x6c	0x6b
(Unlabeled)	0x67	NA	0x67	0xe0 0x12
Right	NA	0x6D	0x6d	NA
Left	NA	0x6E	0x6e	NA
Up	NA	0x71	0x71	NA
Down	NA	0x6F	0x6f	NA

Notes:

• X200 Tablet

  Layout: power (with sliding lock); clockwise-arrow (formerly unlabeled); rotate (two boxes and an arrow); Toolbox (the icon is now a menu); padlock.

  The padlock button seems to do nothing. It generates no scancode, and has no effect on the other buttons.

  The clockwise-arrow button returns a scancode pair. So you say $ setkeycodes e012 whatever.

The utility setkeycodes can be used to map these scancodes to keycodes. Read $ man setkeycodes for usage. For example, the following command will map the page up and page down buttons to their respective keys:

# setkeycodes 6e 109 6d 104

Models featuring this Device

• X41 Tablet, X60 Tablet, X61 Tablet, X200 Tablet

See also

• How to get special keys to work
• Tablet Screen Rotation Support (Launchpad).