[ltp] tp-scroll

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:36:42 -0500


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@b4net.lt> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:57:03AM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
>  > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:02:04 +0100, Stephan Holl wrote:
>  > > Hello Thinkpad-gurus,
>  > >
>  > > I am trying to use tp-scroll on my x61 and I do have partly success.
>  >
>  > Why? Horizontal and vertical scrolling works out of the box with recent
>  > versions of Xorg.
>
>  And older versions too.  Although when I looked at tp-scroll for my T23
>  it had one advantage over EmulateWheel: just pressing the middle button
>  without moving the trackpoint would send proper middle button press &
>  release events.  Useful for pasting.

You can do that with proper X options as well.  EmulateWheelTimeout or
something similar.

Alex