Sunday, January 20, 2008

How to enable midle button scrolling on IBM X31 in Ubuntu

By default, you can scroll by holding down the middle button and using the trackpoint in windows.

In order to enable this functionality in Ubuntu, I did the following:

Add the following lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, under the “Configured Mouse” section, if they are not already there:
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “true”
Option “EmulateWheel” “true”
Option “EmulateWheelButton” “2”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”

save the file and restart X (or the computer), and you now have Trackpoint middle button scrolling

1 Comments:

Blogger pékmanó said...

Oh my man!! You're the best, you are my god!!!

September 21, 2008 5:40 AM  

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