Scrolling with the TrackPoint and middle button (Thinkpads)

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Scrolling with the TrackPoint and middle button (Thinkpads)

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Scrolling with a trackpoint on Thinkpads nowadays works out of the box on most distros but not in all and as we like to hack on our devices as lazy Slackers here is another tip how to make that "nipple" to work.

I only use the pointing device, my touch pad is completely disabled except the three buttons above the track pad. So I prefer to scroll using the trackpoint and pressing the middle button simultaneously. That does not work by default in Salix. Therefor I added another configuration file to

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/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
This time I named it:

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11-evdev-trackpoint.conf
and it contains this:

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Section "InputClass"
	 Identifier     "Wheel Emulation"
	 MatchIsPointer "on"
	 MatchProduct   "TrackPoint"
         Option         "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
         Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
EndSection
After a reboot you will have the ability to scroll using the trackpoint with the middle button.
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