Thinkpad shortkeys

I've recently bought a thinkpad external keyboard and found some shortkeys that it came with quite useful (e.g. clicking on the central mouse button would close a tab on browsers. I noticed that such features were not preloaded on my thinkpad per se (those shortkeys did not work when I pressed the thinkpad keyboard on the laptop itself). Is there any way to enable it?

On the other hand, I' bugged by the shortcut of Ctrl + (button next to up arrow) which flips the screen to horizontal mode. Every time when I accidentally press that I have to go to desktop ==> screen resolution to change it back. Is there a shortkey to flip the screen for 90 degrees?

Thanks.

 

You should check your ultranav/trackpoint settings for the laptop keyboard, make sure it's the latest lenovo drivers and you have the right settings enabled. My middle trackpoint button has aways had that functionality (middle click to close tab) so I wasn't surprised to find it on the external thinkpad keyboard (which is awesome by the way is it not?).

Also, my control+pageforward/pagebackward doesn't do that thing to the screen.. you might want to see if you have some hotkey/shortcuts enabled in the intel graphics driver or the windows shortcuts.

 

There's two buttons next to the up arrow... Maybe try the other one?

 

Yes, I really liked the middle button function. I've tried the other button next to the up arrow, but both of them do 180 degree rotations, so it doesn't help

 

Get a keyboard remapper (I use Keytweak) to remap the key functions. I remapped the keys each side of the up arrow to Pg Up and Pg Dn to save having to reach to the back of the keyboard.

John

 

The Ctrl+Browser Back isn't supposed to be a default keybinding...

 

intel graphics control panel
the last tab (?) on the left lets you set hotkeys for screen rotation