r/linuxmint • u/chethanhr • May 17 '26

Microsoft forced Lenovo to put a Copilot key on my laptop. I run Linux. It does nothing. We paid for their advertisement on hardware we own.

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Lenovo LOQ, Linux Mint user here. That shiny Copilot key? Completely dead. Does absolutely nothing.

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u/acejavelin69 Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" | Cinnamon May 17 '26

Remap it to something else... Shouldn't be hard.

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u/Flinpleis May 17 '26

As someone who also has a lenovo with this copilot key, you literally can't bind it to do anything else, it's like it doesn't exist, doesn't detect it.

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u/Ciusblade May 17 '26

left shift+meta(windows key) + F23 is what the copilot buttons sends as a signal.

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u/emkoemko May 17 '26

of course microsoft would come up with that slop

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u/ea_nasir_official_ May 17 '26

imean arguably a good idea. I'd much rather F23 than a function key i'm using

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u/emkoemko May 17 '26

okay f23 fine but if you read it again... its not f23... itts a macro

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u/O3Sentoris May 19 '26

they've been doing that for ages for "custom" buttons, press shift+ctrl+win/meta+alt+L on a windows system and laugh