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localost

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[Solved] Trackpoint Scrolling on Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 5 (2017)

I've setup Arch on a 2017 Lenovo X1 Carbon and everything seems to work out of the box, despite scrolling using the track stick.
I've installed xf86-input-libinput which should handle this by default but it doesnt work.xinput doesnt seem to show me a any devices that are relevant for this and/or have the relevant properties:

$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ xwayland-pointer:13                     	id=6	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ xwayland-relative-pointer:13            	id=7	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ xwayland-keyboard:13                    	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]

Last edited by localost (2017-03-28 21:16:31)

localost

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Re: [Solved] Trackpoint Scrolling on Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 5 (2017)

It turned out I had to symlink the libevent conf to make it use the correct libinput drivers:

# ln -s /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf

Then you can configure the input devices properly using xinput.

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Re: [Solved] Trackpoint Scrolling on Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 5 (2017)

This is described in the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … figuration although you should copy the file, not symlink it.

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localost

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Re: [Solved] Trackpoint Scrolling on Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 5 (2017)

Actually the description you link in your post tells you to symlink the file...

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] Trackpoint Scrolling on Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 5 (2017)

If you have libinput and synaptics installed in parallel with default configuration...

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