Thinkpad middle button scrolling

Question

I'm running Ubuntu on my Thinkpad T60. Is there a way to get the middle button to act like a scroll like it would when it runs Windows?

I'd like to be able to hold the middle button down and scroll down a webpage using the red button.

score 20 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 18 '10 at 08:28

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http://www.eastwoodzhao.com/thinkpad-middle-button-scroll-ubuntu-linux-10-04-lucid-lynx/

In short, run this: gksu gedit /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-thinkpad.conf and put this in the file:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Trackpoint Wheel Emulation"
MatchProduct "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick|Synaptics Inc. 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

Save and restart.

answered Aug 18 '10 at 08:28

Oli

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In 10.10 you should use gksu gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-thinkpad.conf instead – vava Oct 13 '10 at 01:00
Awesome! Sill accurate on Debian Jessie. – Victor Häggqvist Aug 29 '14 at 15:12
Worked for me on a T540p running Debian Stretch, but I also had to add Driver "evdev" to the configuration file. – Nikopol Sep 03 '16 at 10:27

score 17 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 11 '15 at 08:56

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Install package "gpointing-device-settings" Set options as follows:

check "Use middle button emulation"
check "Use wheel emulation"
select button "2"
check "Enable vertical scroll"

edited Dec 11 '15 at 08:56

phpcoderx

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answered Sep 07 '10 at 21:42

user2109

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I can verify that this works on my ThinkPad X60 running Ubuntu 10.04. +1, and use the rep to post your screenshot. :) – ændrük Sep 07 '10 at 21:47

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 18 '10 at 08:28

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ThinkWiki has instructions on how to do this. Specifically, how to use xinput(1) to configure the TrackPoint.

(All in all, ThinkWiki is a great resource. It's pretty much the go-to place for just about anything on running Linux on Thinkpads.)

answered Aug 18 '10 at 08:28

Jukka Matilainen

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 15 '11 at 19:02

I use the following in my AwesomeWM autostart file:

# make the mouse work right on my thinkpad in lucid
xinput set-prop 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' "Evdev Wheel Emulation" 1
xinput set-prop 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' "Evdev Wheel Emulation Button" 2
xinput set-prop 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' "Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout" 200

In the default Gnome install you could write a script that runs on boot or perhaps check out if the .xinitrc or .Xresources is used. (I can't recall which is used any more)

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 29 '10 at 10:34

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Gpointing is a graphical application for the gnome desktop to achieve the same result ;)

With Ubuntu install it in a terminal

sudo apt-get install gpointing-device-settings

or via software center "gpointing-device-settings"

answered Sep 29 '10 at 10:34

Worked great for a HP Pavilion touchpad – Xeoncross Jan 11 '14 at 00:01
E: Package 'gpointing-device-settings' has no installation candidate aj07mm@aj07mm-ThinkPad-X220:~$ – Julio Marins May 21 '16 at 02:10
Looks like this gpointing-device-settings is not supported anymore. I couldn't this package. – Rubanraj Ravichandran Sep 30 '17 at 14:27

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 02 '15 at 07:16

In Ubuntu 14.04, these settings are in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev-trackpoint.conf. It looks like this:

 # trackpoint users want wheel emulation

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier  "trackpoint catchall"
    MatchIsPointer  "true"
    MatchProduct    "TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Option  "Emulate3Buttons"   "true"
    Option  "EmulateWheel"  "true"
    Option  "EmulateWheelButton"    "2"
    Option  "XAxisMapping"  "6 7"
    Option  "YAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection

To get "natural scrolling", that is, scrolling in the direction of the pointer, you can swap the YAxisMapping values to be "5 4" instead. I restarted after I swapped mine and it worked fine.

Thinkpad middle button scrolling

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