Activating middle mouse button

[Florian Diesch]

Michael R Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:

> 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.

Then <http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint>
should help.



   Florian
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