[ltp] tp-scroll

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:35:39 +0100


On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 16:04:22 +0200, Marius Gedminas 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.

The EmulateWheel function in Xorg works in the same way, at least in
recent versions. :-)

Regards,
Tino