# Re: \[PATCH\] HID: hid-asus.c: Maps key 0x35 (display off) to KEY\_SCREENLOCK

- From: Jiri Kosina \<jikos@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2021-10-19 09:17:43 
- List: linux-input
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-input/2021/10/1546807
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-input/2021/10/1535939/t.md

```text
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Vinícius Angiolucci Reis wrote:

> On Windows systems, ASUS laptops uses the "turn display off" key
> (usually fn+f6) to turn both display and keyboard backlit off. On Linux
> systems, this key has no effect at all since most desktop enviroments
> don't deal with KEY_DISPLAY_OFF. By mapping it to KEY_SCREENLOCK
> instead, would enable desktop environments to handle this key as a
> screen lock intent from the user, out of the box.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vinícius Angiolucci Reis <redacted>

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

```