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Re: Thinkpad X1: FN F1 silence audio, but cannot be activated via the fn keys

From: Uwe Brauer <oub@...>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 10:57:17 +0200
> Uwe Brauer wrote:

> There is a patch pending since some time, that Michele was working on
> recently. From what I have seen he prepared a backport that will go into
> 14.0 when ready.

> Perhaps we should understand and test your use case. I was testing the day
> before on a VM and older Notebook D520 with the default multimedia keys
> (usb keyboard with MM keys and MM combination FN+<n>).

> I see on the internet that on the Thinkpad X1
>         FN+1 = Mute
>         FN+2 = decrease volume
>         FN+3 = increase volume

> So it seems that default MM keys are being used on your end. I believe the
> patch will work for you, so be patient or if you can recompile the code,
> you could help testing it :)

Thanks (so I have to use git to clone the repository I presume, sigh,
fortunately there is the hg-git plugin)

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