Comments on: Getting the ThinkPad scroll button to work in Linux (UPDATED)

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Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:44:23 +0000

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By: trmsw

trmsw — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:21:49 +0000

You might want to look at http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint.

…& personally I find using the trackpoint much easier than using the trackpad

– I don’t have to move my fingers far from their touch-typing position just to move the mouse

– I don’t have to move my fingers at all to scroll vertically and horizontally (beats stroking the sides of a touchpad any day)

By: Skip Paul

Skip Paul — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:35:58 +0000

Thanks Grey! I believe this automatically gets enabled in SLED 10 SP1… if only my x60 had a touchpad

By: oldgreycells

oldgreycells — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:50:06 +0000

There is a much more intuitive scrolling implementation that I’ve been using on a T42 for years. Istall the package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and add the following to your xorg.conf:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”
Driver “synaptics”
Option “SendCoreEvents” “true”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option “HorizScrollDelta” “0″
EndSection

and then add

InputDevice “Synaptics Touchpad”

to the ServerLayout section. Restart X and you will have a ’scroll wheel’ directly on your touch pad – i.e. slide your finger up or down the right hand edge of the touchpad and windows will scroll – very intuitive and only one finger

~GreyCells