Lenovo not all F2 to F11 second functions work

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Hello,

I’m using a Lenovo E16 with Manjaro KDE:

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.11.10-2-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

The F1 to F12 are mapped secondary (from their printing) with:
F1: Mute
F2: decrease volume
F3: increase volume
F4: Mute Mic
F5: decrease brightness
F6: increase brightness
F7: add external monitor?
F8: Flight mode
F9: Print
F10: Snipping Tool
F11: add external monitor version 2?
F12: Favorite

The secondary mapping from F1 to F9 and F12 work as expected.
But I cannot use the secondary mapping of F10 and F11.
They even have no function by default, I cannot use them to add them as a keyboard shortcut for something.

I thought I have used the secondary mapping of F11 before, but I’m not quite sure and I cannot validate it.

Has somebody the same problem? I already tried using FnLock and have set the secondary mapping of the F1 to F12 as primary, nothing helped.

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I may be able to help with that…assuming they’re not internal to the laptop.

First we need to figure out what, if anything, is being sent to the computer. I prefer evtest which isn’t installed by default (Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Alt + C to exit evtest).

The keyboard may have more than one interface, so try each one until you get a response.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboard_input#Using_evtest

Once we know what’s being sent, we may be able to remap each key to something that can be bound to a shortcut. There are several input remapping utilities:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Input_remap_utilities

Or we can remap it ourselves, but that’s more complicated so I wont go into it for now.

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At least with the snipping tool, the problem is it sends by default several keys at once, and you guessed it - a windows shortcut. So one have to sniff with something and remap a shortcut accordingly. I do not remember anymore because i did this hoop jumping last year. I can check later at home. I think at least one of the keys sends an alt key combo so some DEs may refuse to remap with alt (because it will be doubled).

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What I find is kind of interesting is that if I press the Fn Key the tool to edit the Keyboard Shortcuts detects the Wake-Up Button.

The snipping toll and add external monitor version 2? doesn’t produce any output while using evtest or showkey --scancodes.

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That’s weird. :confused:

Did you check all the event files?

If nothing shows up in any event file, then I’d guess the keys are broken. :man_shrugging:

On a side note, in every picture I can find of an E16, it seems F10 is answer call and F11 is hang up.

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My keyboard is a bit different, it shows a scissor on the print screen key above backspace.
And in my shortcuts i see shift-ctrl-print and shift-super-s for the screenshot action - i think one it the default and the other is using this key (for clarity - i press only this key and it sends all 3 other keys to the OS and starts the screenshot tool)

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My one looks like this
Uploading Media sadly doesn’t work: instead, here a link:

https://drive.filen.io/d/b40a5af1-6841-417b-9e0f-f335b68851cf#7znf0P22g145ZFRzTku1Zq33HgJ6Dqkl
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