>yo, bill >yeah >where should we put the print screen button on our new thinkpad? >I dunno, just throw it on the bottom row somewhere lol >also make sure the function key is where people expect ctrl to be
Ahhh so this is the ultra-functional laptop I've been waiting for...
The new layout sucks ass yeah. You can swap Fn + ctrl in the BIOS though if it's a problem for you.
Angel Walker
its been like this for years, zoomerfag
Austin Watson
>the function key is where people expect ctrl to be
fucking zoomers
Carson Cox
It has always been a terrible design choice (in before m-muh easy thinklight access in the dark), and the first thing I do on thinkshits is swap the keys in the BIOS.
Justin Rodriguez
Does it really matter where Ctrl or PrintScreen buttons are ? The layout you're used to is just as arbitary, all that matters are the letter and number buttons, everything else is absolutely arbitary
Daniel Garcia
swap i bios bro
(i hate they did this)
Lincoln Johnson
>new I have a T430 with this keyboard. Sucks ass, I miss my T410.
>Also you're in luck, xx30 can still use the old keyboard. I asked this question in /tpg/ and was told that I couldn't, wtf. I still have the T410's keyboard.. Will have to look into this.
John Martinez
You'd be surprised how useful it is.
That being said if you're using a ThinkPad anyway you should fucking know how to remap buttons.
The real tragedy is that all modify/extra buttons are the same size and colour which makes it hard to navigate out of your vision. Louis does a good video on it famalama dingdong
Ryder Fisher
the pageup and pagedown position is great tho
Jack Jackson
I was worried when I ordered one with that fn/ctrl layout and thought I'd need to swap it, but my finger hits the ctrl naturally and it's actually not bad at all
Aaron Parker
>I have autism
Jacob Hughes
Ctrl matters, print screen is just an annoyance.
Lincoln Bennett
after some though I'd probably prefer home and end there instead
Luis Hall
>>also make sure the function key is where people expect ctrl to be But thinkpads have had fn on the left for a very long time, long before the nu-keyboards were introduced. It's been that way for at least 12 years
Bentley Gomez
IBM pads from the early 90s had it on the left so it's been like that for over 25 years.
Wyatt Garcia
Fn and ctrl have been in those positions on thinkpads since at least 2004, probably longer
Aiden Murphy
>yo bill These things are made in China, not rural Montana
Alexander Jenkins
that's for **20 not **10, dumbfuck
Wyatt Cox
This is why you stick with xx30 series with swapped keyboards
Isaiah Lee
Dropping the context menu key was the most retarded decision.
Logan Young
>CTRL matters why, I got used to the new layout very quickly
Jason Smith
shut up, you bitchmade faggot
Eli Rivera
That's an x240
Caleb Baker
If you use keyboard shortcuts a lot, it makes a difference when Tab, Shift, and CTRL are all aligned to be the left-most keys on their respective rows.
Technically speaking it is the left most software key. FN is a hardware modifier. It doesn't register as an actual key.
Charles White
Not completely true actually - at least with older thinkpads, the Fn key was software readable in cases where you either held it down, or pressed and released it without pressing any other key in combination with it. It probably still works on modern thinkpads but I don't have one to check.
Fun fact: It can also wake a sleeping thinkpad.
Samuel Morgan
Actually you're right it does register as XF86Wakeup. It can't be used as a software modifier is what I was thinking of.
As long as we're sharing fun facts, the F11 key without FN still doesn't register in linux 5.0