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thegbmisback

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Registered: 2013-03-20

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Middle button not used for scrolling. [Solved]

I have a 3 button mouse on my Lenovo X61 laptop, and with Ubuntu I could press and hold that a scroll using the red dot mouse. How can I get #! to do this?

Last edited by thegbmisback (2013-03-25 05:33:43)

dura

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Registered: 2012-09-15

Posts: 2,107

Re: Middle button not used for scrolling. [Solved]

synclient -l

gives you a list of touchpad/trackpoint functionality to identify the line.

synclient VertEdgeScroll=1

is an example of how to set what you want (not on my ThinkPad at the moment).

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24779

Last edited by dura (2013-03-23 17:19:33)

thegbmisback

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Registered: 2013-03-20

Posts: 14

Re: Middle button not used for scrolling. [Solved]

synclient -l

gives you a list of touchpad/trackpoint functionality to identify the line.

synclient VertEdgeScroll=1

is an example of how to set what you want (not on my ThinkPad at the moment).

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24779

When I used the first code in terminator, I got:

Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

xill

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Registered: 2013-03-24

Posts: 3

Re: Middle button not used for scrolling. [Solved]

You can find some information on thinkwiki.org:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_co … TrackPoint

Ubuntu does the configuration by having a file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev-trackpoint.conf with the following content:

# trackpoint users want wheel emulation

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier	"trackpoint catchall"
	MatchIsPointer	"true"
	MatchProduct	"TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick"
	MatchDevicePath	"/dev/input/event*"
	Option	"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
	Option	"EmulateWheel"	"true"
	Option	"EmulateWheelButton"	"2"
	Option	"XAxisMapping"	"6 7"
	Option	"YAxisMapping"	"4 5"
EndSection

As a quick but non-permanent solution you can use xinput

xinput set-int-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "Evdev Wheel Emulation" 8 1
xinput set-int-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "Evdev Wheel Emulation Button" 8 2
xinput set-int-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes" 8 6 7 4 5

thegbmisback

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Registered: 2013-03-20

Posts: 14

Re: Middle button not used for scrolling. [Solved]

You can find some information on thinkwiki.org:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_co … TrackPoint

Ubuntu does the configuration by having a file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev-trackpoint.conf with the following content:

# trackpoint users want wheel emulation

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier	"trackpoint catchall"
	MatchIsPointer	"true"
	MatchProduct	"TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick"
	MatchDevicePath	"/dev/input/event*"
	Option	"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
	Option	"EmulateWheel"	"true"
	Option	"EmulateWheelButton"	"2"
	Option	"XAxisMapping"	"6 7"
	Option	"YAxisMapping"	"4 5"
EndSection

As a quick but non-permanent solution you can use xinput

xinput set-int-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "Evdev Wheel Emulation" 8 1
xinput set-int-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "Evdev Wheel Emulation Button" 8 2
xinput set-int-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes" 8 6 7 4 5

Your "non-permanent solution" works great when added to the auto start. Thanks!