Tablet Hardware Buttons

Tablet Hardware Buttons The X41 tablet PC 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). The X41 Tablet hardware buttons include1: Power (with sliding lock) Cltr-Alt-Del [sic] Page up Page down, Enter Escape Screen Rotation Tablet shortcut menu

Linux Support

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

Key	Scancode
Page up	0x6D
Page down	0x6E
Enter	0x69
Esc	0x6B
Toolbox	0x68
Rotate	0x6C
(Unlabeled)	0x67

The utility setkeycodes(8) can be used to map these scancodes to keycodes. 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

• ThinkPad X41 Tablet

FOOTNOTES [Δ]

1. According to the IBM/Lenovo X41 Tablet website.