Thinkpad Assistant

An Assistant Application that allows you to use all your Function Keys on a T-Series Thinkpad Laptop

Discussion

• Hackintosh-Forum.de in German
• InsanelyMac.com in English

Features

• F4: Mute / Unmute Microphone (with Status LED indication)
• F7: Screen mirroring / Screen extending
• F8: Activate / Deactivate Wi-Fi
• Left Shift+F8: Activate / Deactivate Bluetooth
• F9: Open System Preferences
• F12: Open Launchpad
• FN+Space: Toggle Keyboard Backlight

Demo

Installation

Opencore

1. Get a pair of Patch & SSDT from Samples folder
2. Compile SSDT (ex. iasl -vo SSDT-T460-KBRD.dsl)
3. Copy SSDT.aml to EFI/OC/ACPI
4. Apply patch on config.plst with PlistBuddy
5. Download Thinkpad Assistant
6. Extract & Copy to Applications folder
7. Start Thinkpad Assistant & Tick 'Launch on Login' in Menubar
8. Reboot

Clover

1. Get a pair of Patch & SSDT from Samples folder
2. Compile SSDT (ex. iasl -vo SSDT-T460-KBRD.dsl)
3. Copy SSDT.aml to EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched
4. Apply patch on config.plst with PlistBuddy
5. Download Thinkpad Assistant
6. Extract & Copy to Applications folder
7. Start Thinkpad Assistant & Tick 'Launch on Login' in Menubar
8. Reboot

Tester & working Configs

Config	Tester	Bootloader	Image
T460	MSzturc	OpenCore	Lenovo-T460-OpenCore
T480	xma	Clover	T480-Clover
X1C6	tylernguyen	OpenCore / Clover	x1c6-hackintosh
T440p	pandel	Clover	-
T460s	simprecicchiani	OpenCore	Thinkpad-T460s-macOS-OpenCore
T470s	YBN-JUAN	OpenCore	T470s-OpenCore-EFI