[ltp] Trackpoint and Scrolling on R31 ?

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:42:15 +0200


On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:40:49 -0500, Rob Mayoff wrote:
> +---------- On Jul 10, ich@borisschroeder.de said:
> > Up to now everything seems to work fine, but I'm really missing the
> > scroll feature that the third button provides combined with the moving
> > trackpoint in Wintendo.
> 
> You need to use the "EmulateWheel" and "EmulateWheelButton" options in
> your XF86Config-4.  See <http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/mouse.4.html>.
> 
> You'll probably also want to set "Emulate3Buttons".
> 
> For example:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier "Mouse0"
>         Driver "mouse"
>         Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>         Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
>         Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
>         Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
>         Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
> 	Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> EndSection

Why should he use Emulate3Button if he has a real third button?

Regards,
Tino

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