Re: [gpm] thinklight button on an IBM Thinkpad

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 12:05 +0000, Paul Ionescu wrote:
> On most IBM/LENOVO thinkpads is a LED on top of the LCD that can light 
> the keyboard, mapped to the Fn-PgUp key combination (toggle on/off).

Yup, me too.

> My question is how to map this key in order to have OSD for this event ?

Well, since 2.6.25ish these keys should now be coming through the INPUT
layer, so in theory it should be easy to capture.

> I am thinking of how to activate OSD with
> /usr/share/gnome-power-manager/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/gpm-
> brightness-lcd.svg
> and 

It's not quite brightness - can you think of a better metaphor?

Richard.