Sunday, December 9, 2007

100. Enable TrackPoint middle-button scrolling

To use the blue middle TrackPoint button as a scroll wheel (using the red TrackPoint itself to scroll up and down), do the following. In a terminal, enter these commands:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-original
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

In the editor, find the section headed Section “InputDevice” / Identifier “Configured Mouse” and add the following lines above the “EndSection” line:

Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"

Save the file. Logout, restart X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, and log in again.

Source for this item: Many ThinkPad-related sites, confirmed by experiment.

1 comment:

Magda said...

It didn't work for t60 and ubuntu 8.10. But the solution was:

Re: Getting middle mouse button (wheel) and scroll to work!
Well i found the way to enable that but only in Firefox.
U have to go and type about:config in url then find general.autoScroll
and set it to true.