TrackPoint Middle Button Scrolling

[David Batson]

It seems like every new release breaks my old method of doing things. I've had to revisit and edit this topic a number of times. This time I feel I've almost gone round circle with an xorg configuration file. Credit goes to sillav who posted this solution a couple of weeks ago. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=280107

I repost sillav's solution (with a minor edit) as I feel this topic deserves its own thread.

Create the following file as root:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-thinkpad-trackpoint.conf

Put the following content in that file:

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier	"Trackpoint Wheel Emulation"
	MatchProduct	"TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick|Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint|ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint|USB Trackpoint pointing device|Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint"
	MatchDevicePath	"/dev/input/event*"
	Option		"EmulateWheel"		"true"
	Option		"EmulateWheelButton"	"2"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"false"
	Option		"XAxisMapping"		"6 7"
	Option		"YAxisMapping"		"4 5"
EndSection

This is also posted down the list of possible solutions at www.thinkwiki.org (I was using the xinput method in F16, but cannot get that method to autostart in F17).
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to...nt#xorg.conf.d

[Kalram]

Thanks a lot, switching from Ubuntu to Fedora today, it's exactly what I needed!
A clean and efficient way to enable TrackPoint scrolling

[maxpro4u]

on my a31 all hotkeys are working using fedora 17 lxde! they do not using any flavor of debian.

[jbkt23]

I'm using F18 on my thinkpad x40 and have spent a lot of time figuring out which method listed in the thinkwiki works and finally found the same solution posted by David to work. I even searched this forum but I used 'tap to select' as the terms and that never pulled up any results. Tap to select is the other fearture I use with my trackpoint, the solution that works is the following:

Create a file named 10-trackpoint.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/
In that file insert the following text:

# This file enables trackpoint tap per Thinkwiki

SUBSYSTEM=="serio", DRIVERS=="psmouse", ATTR{press_to_select}="1", ATTR{sensitivity}="150", ATTR{speed}="110", ATTR{inertia}="6"

and save. The text above except for the description after "#" is all on one line.

I think the tap feature will work almost as soon as you save the file but if not log out and back in again.
The think wiki describes this but there are several diffent variations of the text found there and I had to do some trial and error before the above was confirmed to work.
David, if you don't mind I think the title of this guide should be 'Trackpoint Scoll and Tap Config', it would then be clear that it covers just about everything you need to configure the stub.