The Fuhrer on Lenovos new Clickpad
Montag, den 15. Dezember 2014Lenovo Thinkpad W540 – the very last Thinkpad in my life – Lenovo sucks.
Freitag, den 27. Juni 2014I have to admit that I was blinded by some positive tests in the relevant platforms and media and – which was much more cruicial – my own experience with high class ThinkPad machines. So nothing to euphemise – that’s what you get when you blindly trust a big business concern like Lenovo. It’s completely my fault that I’m a displeased owner of an expensive but cheap piece of plastic. Sadly there seem to be no replacements on the market atm, either significant parts like a trackpoint, enough USB ports or a high resolution display are missing, the casing is even more worse than the one of this rattletrap or the internals are too lame to sell them as a „workstation“.
Oh, and not to forget: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/02/19/lenovo-caught-installing-adware-new-computers/
Update: Those suckers really don’t seem to give a fuck for their customers
Update: Aaaand Another one.
Update: Oh dear. Really? Not charging batteries not found to be „genuine“? You guys at Lenovo *really* suck big time.
Anyway. Now that I own this crappy piece of downgrade I feel like I have to make my concerns public to prevent at least a couple of people to get trapped by some clever PR.
Thinkpad W540: Multimedia Keys in XFCE
Donnerstag, den 26. Juni 2014Create a new file wherever you like and make it executable. Paste the following code to it:
#!/bin/bash if [ "$1" == "raise" ]; then pactl set-sink-mute 1 0 pactl set-sink-volume 1 -- +2% amixer -c 1 set Master unmute amixer -c 1 set Headphones unmute amixer -c 1 set Speaker unmute amixer -c 1 set PCM 100% elif [ "$1" == "lower" ]; then pactl set-sink-mute 1 0 pactl set-sink-volume 1 -- -2% amixer -c 1 set Master unmute amixer -c 1 set Headphones unmute amixer -c 1 set Speaker unmute amixer -c 1 set PCM 100% elif [ "$1" == "toggle" ]; then pactl set-sink-mute 1 toggle #amixer -c 1 set Master toggle amixer -c 1 set PCM 100% elif [ "$1" == "unmute" ]; then pactl set-sink-mute 1 0 amixer -c 1 set Master unmute amixer -c 1 set Headphones unmute amixer -c 1 set Speaker unmute amixer set PCM 100% elif [ "$1" == "mute" ]; then pactl set-sink-mute 1 1 amixer -c 1 set Master mute amixer -c 1 set Headphones mute amixer -c 1 set Speaker mute amixer -c 1 set PCM 100% elif [ "$1" == "mictoggle" ]; then amixer -c 1 set Capture toggle fi
- Open Settings -> Keyboard and switch to the shortcuts tab
- Create a new entry, command „/path/to/script toggle“, hit Fn+F1
- Create a new entry, command „/path/to/script lower“, hit Fn+F2
- Create a new entry, command „/path/to/script raise“, hit Fn+F3
- Create a new entry, command „/path/to/script mictoggle“, hit Fn+F4