Keyboard Backlight

Keyboard Backlight

 

I do most of my computer stuff at night, in bed.  We keep the lights off, or very low as there is also some TV watching going on.  That’s right, this cranky old man can multitask. 

For the last humpty-diddle years, this computer playing at night has been very difficult, especially when trying to write a post. 

My typing is not that good.  I can find most of the keys blind, maybe 85 percent.  Eighty-five percent looks like this.

I can khund most of the kets, 65 pervent/

Not awful, but not very efficient.  In order to see the keys which, I must do to hit at a higher percent of accuracy, I tilt the screen down to put light on the keyboard.

This works pretty well, actually it sucks. I can barely see the keys and it makes it difficult to see the screen.  I kinda need to see the screen.  Major dilemma.

So, for humpty-diddle years I have been typing at night with a tilted screen to see barely see the keys, and then an un-tilt to read what I have typed.

Not very efficient.  Actually, very annoying.

The other night I found this method to be extra annoying.

“Why can’t they have a lighted keyboard on my laptop!”

Mrs. C opined, “Maybe you can light the keyboard.”

“I don’t think so.  When the computer comes on the keyboard lights up, but then it goes off.”

“So. it has lights.”

“Yes, for about 12 seconds!”

“Google keyboard backlight.”

I googled keyboard backlight, and it seems you can turn on a keyboard light for some laptops.  YouTube instructions said Fn + Pf 5 would work…It did not.

I searched my control panel for “Keyboard light.”  Nothing.

This was really frustrating.  If some keyboards can be backlit, why not all.  Why not mine.

“Google keyboard backlight for Lenovo.”

“Good Idea!”

Bingo!!

For a Lenovo PC, Fn +Space-bar will turn on your keyboard light.

Eureka, it works. 

Do  I feel stupid for not figuring this out years ago?  Yeah, a little...but

You CAN teach an old crank new tricks.  It only took humpy-diddle years to think that just maybe the keyboard light could be turned on and off as needed, but at least I did figure it out.

Baby steps toward computer wizardry.