{"id":412,"date":"2011-12-29T21:58:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T05:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2011-12-29T22:03:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T06:03:42","slug":"thinkpad-x300-scrolling-with-trackpoint-in-ubuntu-10-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/thinkpad-x300-scrolling-with-trackpoint-in-ubuntu-10-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrolling with TrackPoint in Ubuntu 10.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Thinkpad X300 is a great machine and everything in Ubuntu 10.04 works natively except for scrolling with the TrackPoint. \u00a0I’ve gotten it working but it never sticks after putting the laptop to sleep. \u00a0Below are the instructions modified for a Thinkpad X300.<\/p>\n

1. Install gpointing-device-settings
\nOpen terminal and type sudo apt-get install gpointing-device-settings<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Enable scrolling with TrackPoint
\nOpen gpointing-device-settings and click DualPoint Stick and check use wheel emulation with button 2.<\/p>\n

3. Create\u00a0\/usr\/lib\/X11\/xorg.conf.d\/20-thinkpad.conf<\/p>\n

Section “InputClass”
\nIdentifier “Trackpoint Wheel Emulation”
\nMatchProduct “DualPoint Stick”
\nMatchDevicePath “\/dev\/input\/event*”
\nDriver “evdev”
\nOption “EmulateWheel” “true”
\nOption “EmulateWheelButton” “2”
\nOption “Emulate3Buttons” “false”
\nOption “XAxisMapping” “6 7”
\nOption “YAxisMapping” “4 5”
\nEndSection<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I modified the instructions found here<\/a>\u00a0since they only partly worked for my X300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Thinkpad X300 is a great machine and everything in Ubuntu 10.04 works natively except for scrolling with the TrackPoint. \u00a0I’ve gotten it working but it never sticks after putting the laptop to sleep. \u00a0Below are the instructions modified for a Thinkpad X300. 1. Install gpointing-device-settings Open terminal and type sudo apt-get install gpointing-device-settings 2….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[15,112,11,113],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-10-04","tag-thinkpad","tag-ubuntu","tag-x300"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1vc3H-6E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}