[SOLVED] Is it possible to keep keyboard's backlight always on?

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Solution: https://github.com/valinet/ThinkPadLEDControl

1 - Tick the box next to "Remember keyboard illumination level after restart, sleep, and other powers events." It will always keep the keyboard illuminated - can't do anything else.

2 - Enable "Register to run at system startup as admin."

My settings:

ThinkPad LED Control Settings.jpg

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My Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 laptop has a backlit keyboard that defaults to always off. It requires pressing Fn + Space Bar every single time the system is booted or awoken from sleep. So annoying. It would be such an easy thing to change on Lenovo's part. Just plain dumb!! There's nothing that can change this behavior in the BIOS nor in Lenovo Vantage.

I am thinking there's absolutely nothing that can be done about this, but hope I am wrong.

Is there a 3rd party program out there that can help? A registry edit?
 
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Is this, or is this not, solved?

I've never encountered any laptop with a backlit keyboard where its status is not typically controlled via one of the function keys. On my laptop, it happens to be F8, which toggles between off, low, and high backlighting, and whatever your last choice is sticks.

Have you seen this page: https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/...hinkpad-t14-type-20s0-20s1/solutions/ht104656
It documents the procedure, which uses the spacebar as part of it, on the machine you name.

See also: https://github.com/valinet/ThinkPadLEDControl
 
Don't think so on the T14 - pretty sure that model's backlight is circuit-controlled - and not software controlled... so it's kinda "dumb".
 
britechguy said:
Is this, or is this not, solved?

I've never encountered any laptop with a backlit keyboard where its status is not typically controlled via one of the function keys. On my laptop, it happens to be F8, which toggles between off, low, and high backlighting, and whatever your last choice is sticks.

Have you seen this page: https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/...hinkpad-t14-type-20s0-20s1/solutions/ht104656
It documents the procedure, which uses the spacebar as part of it, on the machine you name.

See also: https://github.com/valinet/ThinkPadLEDControl
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I saw that but it did not mention KB leds. But did on others like power, etc.
 
britechguy said:
Is this, or is this not, solved?

I've never encountered any laptop with a backlit keyboard where its status is not typically controlled via one of the function keys. On my laptop, it happens to be F8, which toggles between off, low, and high backlighting, and whatever your last choice is sticks.

Have you seen this page: https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/...hinkpad-t14-type-20s0-20s1/solutions/ht104656
It documents the procedure, which uses the spacebar as part of it, on the machine you name.

See also: https://github.com/valinet/ThinkPadLEDControl
Click to expand...
I installed this app and ticked the box for "Remember keyboard illumination level after restart, sleep, and other powers events." Also, I enabled "Register to run at system startup as admin."

Holy red rocket, it works!!! :p SOLVED!!

I have set up a few brand new Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5i laptops that have a properly functioning keyboard backlight that turns on when a key is pressed and turns off after a brief time. Makes no sense for my higher-end, slightly older ThinkPad to not have this feature.

I also have a Lenovo Legion 7 laptop (AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, GeForce RTX 3080 16GB) that does not let me do anything with the RGB until iCUE loads. I just keep all the lights turned off as I use an external keyboard. My understanding is that the newer versions of this laptop do not require iCUE as Lenovo made their own app for controlling the RGB.
 
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