Raspberry Pi 400 and 500 • Re: Scroll Lock (ScrLk) key on Raspberry Pi 500

The scroll lock was removed because it was considered to be a function that more people get annoyed about than people who find useful. e.g. A user accidentally presses it then the cursor works differently on spreadsheets and the user does not know why. You have found a case where it is useful and I think your workaround is good. The keyboard code is open source for the internal RP2040 microcontroller and there are ways you can recomplile and program yourself. Here is the source:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/QMK

Instructions on reflashing the Pi500 keyboard

https://github.com/raspberrypi/QMK/tree ... /rpi/pi500

Statistics: Posted by simon-martin-rpi — Wed Sep 17, 2025 5:59 am

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