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bli

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Registered: 2014-03-16

Posts: 1

Re: [xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint] Still no middle mouse scroll on T440p

I'm not a trackpoint user, in part because I find it difficult to precisely select text using the trackpoint. However It happens that I'm much happier with the tap behaviour obtained using the default configuration with xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint than without using this package.
The problem is that whenever I try to click and drag to select text with the clickpad, the right-click contextual menu appears. Any suggestion how to avoid this would be much appreciated.

Side note: This large clickpad is such a regression compared to my T61 small trackpad with physical buttons. I keep doing unwanted moves with my palm (and lost a previous version of this message because of that), an annoyance my mother is complaining about on her macbook. How come the Lenovo people decided to go for such an option?

thender

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Registered: 2014-06-09

Posts: 2

Re: [xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint] Still no middle mouse scroll on T440p

Silly ignorant question here,

I have a Gentoo installation on a t520p and a t440p. I was saddened when gettng the t440p after hours of configuration attempts resulted in no scroll with middle click. Is there a way to install & get this working on another distro?

I am trying to create an overlay that emerges x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics & x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev with these  patches.

0004-disable-clickpad_guess_clickfingers.patch works for synaptics. I can't get either 0001-implement-trackpoint-wheel-emulation.patch nor 0006-add-synatics-files-into-Makefile.am.patch to work with evdev. Which patches are for which packages so I know that I am applying the patches to the right package?

Last edited by thender (2014-06-10 06:26:03)

thender

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Registered: 2014-06-09

Posts: 2

Re: [xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint] Still no middle mouse scroll on T440p

At the risk of appearing a spammer, I am going to post my solution here. I started completely clueless, and managed to fix it and get it working on Gentoo. I am only posting this here for the benefit of the next lost, clueless gentoo user, who googles at 1 AM and finds this thread and gets stuck.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-992918.html

Kneipi

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Registered: 2015-11-02

Posts: 4

Re: [xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint] Still no middle mouse scroll on T440p

Excuse me for diggin out this old thread but I have an Issue which fits best here.
I have an T440s and am trying to get the trackpad scroll to work under arch.
I am running Mint Arch dual boot and it works fine in linux mint. I did a lot of searching and remembered that I followed this guide when I set up Mint.
Ironically all the discussions I read reffered to this fix in the AUR which is not online anymore even though the deb packages made of it are.
However I followed the link posted from esrevinu to his page https://bitbucket.org/esrevinu/xf86-inp … trackpoint and downloaded it there.
I "make install"ed it but changing the driver from synapsis to evdev does not work and leaves me with settings where rightclick doesn't even work.
Can somebody how fixed this on arch tell me how?

esrevinu

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Registered: 2013-12-12

Posts: 20

Re: [xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint] Still no middle mouse scroll on T440p

Dear Kneipi,

You can find my packages in  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5mb3px1j6xiu … BYLGa?dl=0.
Since I am not using that buttonless touchpad, version 2.10.0 is not tested.
But version 2.10.0 is generated by just changing version number in PKGBUILD, so I think it will work.

Last edited by esrevinu (2015-11-05 20:00:55)

Kneipi

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Registered: 2015-11-02

Posts: 4

Re: [xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint] Still no middle mouse scroll on T440p

Dear esrevinu,
Thank you so much! It works as expected! (I installed 2.9.2)

kuenx

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Registered: 2014-01-19

Posts: 3

Re: [xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint] Still no middle mouse scroll on T440p

Hi esrevinu

I'm currently setting up my laptop again and noticed that your package is no longer in the AUR. So I started wondering whether there is maybe a new approach to solving the problem but couldn't find anything. Is there a particular reason why your package disappeared from the AUR? Or does it have to do with the AUR3 to AUR4 migration? Your package is most awesome and saved me big time from Lenovo's Clickpad hell.

esrevinu

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Registered: 2013-12-12

Posts: 20

Re: [xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint] Still no middle mouse scroll on T440p

I had replaced my touchpad with one with buttons. So I disowned the package as I could not maintain it.
Then, the orphan package was removed when moving to the new AUR.

Yesterday, I found out the best package for you. It is xf86-input-libinput.
https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedul … t_xorg.pdf
I think it should work with your touchpads.
Please try this package.

Last edited by esrevinu (2015-11-14 17:58:17)

kuenx

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Registered: 2014-01-19

Posts: 3

Re: [xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint] Still no middle mouse scroll on T440p

Thanks! xf86-input-libinput looks pretty cool. The presentation even specifically mentions the x240. I'm going to check this out. At the moment I'm using the latest package from your Dropbox and it works fine except that every once in a while the entire pad behaves as the right-click. I can fix it by suspending and resuming quickly. Pretty weird.

Did you get a new laptop or did you actually swap the clickpad for a new one with separate buttons?  I was thinking about buying a replacement part of the x250 and try it on my x240. But my laptop is now also the machine I use for work so I can't take risk like that without knowing that it's going to work.

esrevinu

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Registered: 2013-12-12

Posts: 20

Re: [xf86-input-evdev-trackpoint] Still no middle mouse scroll on T440p

I bought a new clickpad with buttons from ebay and replaced the original one with it.
My laptop is TP Yoga. Linux works well with the new clickpad, not requiring any setup.
But MS Windows has a driver problem. I found out a solution for this.
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-S … se/page/10