Lenovo ThinkPad Z13

Hardware	PCI/USB ID	Working?
ForcePad	`04f3:3231`	Yes
TrackPoint		Partial
TouchScreen		Yes
Stylus		Yes
GPU	`1002:1681`	Yes
Webcam	`13d3:8219`	Yes
IR camera	`13d3:8222`	Partial
Audio	`1002:1640`	Partial
Wireless	`17cb:1103`	Yes
Bluetooth	`10ab:9309`	Yes
Fingerprint reader	`06cb:0123`	Yes
USB4		Partial
TPM		Yes

Lid Switch

As of January 2023, the lid switch will toggle the sleep state of the laptop. Notably, if the computer is already in sleep mode and the lid is then closed, the computer will wake. There is currently no known workaround.

ForcePad

The ForcePad functions properly as a multi-touch trackpad. The clicking sensation, click sensitivity, and emulated Trackpoint button adjustments can be made using the ELAN Haptic Pad Settings Tool provided by Lenovo.

TrackPoint

There is a double tap feature in Windows that does not exist for Linux. Otherwise, the TrackPoint is fully functional.

Fingerprint

The fingerprint scanner works using fprint. There is an entry for the fingerprint scanner in the BIOS full diagnostic tests, but it is skipped during testing, and an individual BIOS test for the scanner is not shown.

Stylus

The Precision Pen 2 generally works with the optional OLED display, but a stylus configuration must be manually created to use the full functionality.

Audio

The amplifier will occasionally fail to turn on after waking from suspend. On some distributions, a bug can occur where only one speaker will play and the other speaker has intermittent, soft popping. This can sometimes be fixed by restarting pipewire.service user unit.

The built-in stereo microphones are reversed and have different gain levels. That is, the left microphone replays on the right speaker and vice versa.

Webcam

While howdy seems able to enable the USB IR camera (available on some models) this is not accessible by default via a /dev/videon path despite showing up in lsusb. The normal (visible spectrum) camera is functional.

Display

Marketing material for the Z13 indicates displays have either 100% sRGB or 100% DCI-P3 coverage. It is unclear whether an externally sourced color profile needs to be loaded and whether this will work on all common compositors. An executable is available on the Lenovo support site (“ThinkPad monitor INF files”) which provides ThinkPad color profiles.

Firmware

Can be updated via fwupd or manually in the BIOS.

Take caution when running an unattended BIOS diagnostic test. It is possible that the processor remains hot (e.g. 66 Celcius with fans near 5000 RPM) long after the test is complete.

Power Management

There are typically battery charging adjustments available for ThinkPad laptops that are not available for the Z13.

See Power management/Suspend and hibernate#Changing suspend method.

USB4

USB4 including PCIe tunneling works for the most part, but it does not seem to be completely stable. This behavior can also be observed under Windows.

Function keys

Key	Visible?¹	Marked?²	Effect
`Fn`	Yes	No	`KEY_WAKEUP`
`Fn+Esc`	No³	Yes	Enables Fn lock
`Fn+F1`	Yes³	Yes	`KEY_MUTE`
`Fn+F2`	Yes	Yes	`KEY_VOLUMEDOWN`
`Fn+F3`	Yes	Yes	`KEY_VOLUMEUP`
`Fn+F4`	Yes³	Yes	`KEY_F20`⁴ Mutes microphone
`Fn+F5`	Yes	Yes	`KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN`⁵
`Fn+F6`	Yes	Yes	`KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP`⁵
`Fn+F7`	Yes	Yes	`KEY_SWITCHVIDEOMODE`⁴
`Fn+F8`	Yes	Yes	`KEY_WLAN`⁴
`Fn+F9`	No³	Yes	Toggles integrated camera
`Fn+F10`	Yes	Yes	`KEY_CONNECT`⁴
`Fn+F11`	Yes	Yes	`KEY_CANCEL`⁴
`Fn+F12`	Yes	Yes	`KEY_BOOKMARKS`⁴
`Fn+PrtSc`	Yes	No	`KEY_PROG2`⁴
`Fn+Space`	No³	Yes	Cycles keyboard backlight
`Fn+4`	Yes	No	`KEY_SLEEP`⁴
`Fn+Tab`	Yes	No	`KEY_ZOOM`⁴
`Fn+RightShift`	Yes	No	`KEY_PROG3`⁴
`Fn+End`	Yes	Yes	`KEY_INSERT`
`Fn+B`	Yes	No	`KEY_LEFTCTRL`+`KEY_PAUSE`
`Fn+P`	Yes	No	`KEY_PAUSE`
`Fn+K`	Yes	No	`KEY_SCROLLLOCK`
`Fn+T`	No	No	toggle intelligent cooling⁶
`Fn+H`	No	No	switch to performance profile⁶
`Fn+M`	No	No	switch to balanced profile⁶
`Fn+L`	No	No	switch to low power profile⁶
`Fn+G`	No	No	toggle TrackPoint quick menu (not supported in Linux)
`Fn+Up`	Yes	Yes	`KEY_PAGEUP`
`Fn+Down`	Yes	Yes	`KEY_PAGEDOWN`
`Fn+Left`	Yes	No	`KEY_HOME`
`Fn+Right`	Yes	No	`KEY_END`
`Fn+S`	Yes	No	`KEY_LEFTALT`+`KEY_SYSRQ`

The key is visible via evtest and similar tools
The physical key has a symbol on it, which describes its function
An LED indicates the state of this switch
This event is handled by "ThinkPad Extra Buttons"
This event is handled by "Video Bus"
Untested (see discussion)

Notably, Alt+F4 will try to close the active window regardless of Fn or FnLock state.

This is the first ThinkPad model where the Fn key is not in the corner of the keyboard. Fn and LeftCtrl can be swapped in the BIOS menu. The keycaps are the same size, so they could theoretically also be swapped to match the BIOS setting.

ThinkPad Extra Buttons

This input driver has ID: bus 0x19 vendor 0x17aa product 0x5054 version 0x4101 and lists support for various events:

Code	Event
113	`KEY_MUTE`
114	`KEY_VOLUMEDOWN`
115	`KEY_VOLUMEUP`
120	`KEY_SCALE`
140	`KEY_CALC`
142	`KEY_SLEEP`
144	`KEY_FILE`
148	`KEY_PROG1`
149	`KEY_PROG2`
152	`KEY_SCREENLOCK`
156	`KEY_BOOKMARKS`
158	`KEY_BACK`
171	`KEY_CONFIG`
173	`KEY_REFRESH`
190	`KEY_F20`
191	`KEY_F21`
194	`KEY_F24`
202	`KEY_PROG3`
205	`KEY_SUSPEND`
212	`KEY_CAMERA`
216	`KEY_CHAT`
217	`KEY_SEARCH`
218	`KEY_CONNECT`
223	`KEY_CANCEL`
224	`KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN`
225	`KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP`
227	`KEY_SWITCHVIDEOMODE`
228	`KEY_KBDILLUMTOGGLE`
236	`KEY_BATTERY`
237	`KEY_BLUETOOTH`
238	`KEY_WLAN`
240	`KEY_UNKNOWN`
372	`KEY_ZOOM`
374	`KEY_KEYBOARD`
466	`KEY_FN_F1`
475	`KEY_FN_F10`
476	`KEY_FN_F11`
582	`KEY_VOICECOMMAND`
592	`KEY_BRIGHTNESS_MIN`

Troubleshooting

Wireless

The wireless chip (QCNFA765) does not work with the kernel parameter debugfs=off