https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7 TrayStatus RSS: FN lock status Fri, 22 May 2026 17:07:10 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7 https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/View/fn-lock-status/?ID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7#6 Sat, 29 Jan 2022 22:05:51 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/View/fn-lock-status/?ID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7#6 TrayStatus Same issue with a Dell Precision 3551, but in this case there's no screen indicator (or led, or anything) so it may be a function entirely internal to the keyboard hardware.

For me it's a minor issue as this came up with pgAdmin 4, which uses F keys to execute statements. I probably will end up using another IDE (Dbeaver, for example) where the F keys are not used.

Otherwise the program is excellent. I especially like the recently added capability to force num-lock on. Some corporate-required application was toggling it off, I couldn't find what it was, but now I don't care. ]]> https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/View/fn-lock-status/?ID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7#5 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:19:51 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/View/fn-lock-status/?ID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7#5 TrayStatus Ok, I'm not sure if we can read the status of that key or if it's a special thing in the Lenovo drivers, but I will put it on our feature request list, and if we're able to add it in the future, we'll be sure to post an update.

Thanks! ]]> https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/View/fn-lock-status/?ID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7#4 Sat, 07 Sep 2019 09:57:51 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/View/fn-lock-status/?ID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7#4 TrayStatus Thanks for your reply.

It shows the status of the Fn key itself.

Here's a screenshot: ]]> https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/View/fn-lock-status/?ID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7#3 Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:16:17 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/View/fn-lock-status/?ID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7#3 TrayStatus Does the Lenovo software actually show the status of the Fn key itself, or just an overlay when you run Fn + Whatever key? ]]> https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/View/fn-lock-status/?ID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7#2 Sat, 31 Aug 2019 18:10:47 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/View/fn-lock-status/?ID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7#2 TrayStatus I just saw in previous forum topics that this is not a feature you can implement. That's a shame.

Currently Lenovo supplies its own software:

https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Lenovo_Hotkey_Features_Integration

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T400-T500-and-newer-T/What-Lenovo-On-Screen-Display-do/td-p/4251084

that shows the status change onscreen, when the FN button is locked or pressed.

So I know there should be a way to do it. But I'm not a programmer, so I'll defer to your view. ]]> https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/View/fn-lock-status/?ID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7 Sat, 31 Aug 2019 10:02:26 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.traystatus.com/Discussions/View/fn-lock-status/?ID=3cfe3b51-bf18-44cc-8b29-03f920d61ca7 TrayStatus Hi
I have a Thinkpad.
It has a Fn Lock key (by pressing FN and escape, it activates the lock).

It would be nice if Traystatus could show the status of the FN key and the FN lock also. ]]>