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by drunkenfly 4542 days ago
Fn key is switched with Ctrl - this completely breaks my touchtyping. On last Lenovo I used there was no way to make Fn to be Ctrl, don't know if it was possible on T420. But with that little swap I can't call that keyboard decent.
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On T530 you can do it from the BIOS settings. I have the weirdest problems with that though. If I touch-type I always use the Fn as Ctrl, but when I read a more complex shortcut and try to apply it by looking at the keyboard (like: Notepad++ XML format = Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B), I always use the "Ctrl" instead of Fn frist.
The Fn key has always been the leftmost key on Thinkpads, so I don’t really care about that. However, even my T410s has the option to swap Fn and Ctrl in the BIOS, so I would assume the T420s to have it, too.
I feel you. I use my desktop 80% of the time, touchtyping on my Das Keyboard. When I switch to my T430s my typing speed definitely drops for that reason.