Tablet Hardware Buttons
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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
