Activating middle mouse button

[Michael R Head]

On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 21:58 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
> "Michael R. Head" <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 13:33 +0530, eran ratnayake wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>             I use IBM Thinkpad R51e and I want to activate the
> >> scrolling functionality of middle mouse button in all the possible
> >> windows. How I do that?
> >
> > That's a feature specific to the IBM-provided drivers for Windows. I
> > haven't found a package that does quite the same thing under Linux. One
> 
> Have a look at xfree86-driver-synaptics

I don't believe that has anything to do with the IBM trackpoint "red
nubbin" pointing device. It does indeed do some nice things if you've
got a touchpad, though.

thanks,
mike

> 
>    Florian
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