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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:48:04 -0500
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On 11/12/2011 6:08 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 10 December 2011 15:15, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> Hi all (esp. Andy),
>>
>> A recent email on the cygwin/x mailing list pointed out that Lenovo
>> trackpoint scrolling had stopped working in xterm [1]. I didn't know it was
>> there in the first place, but I can just imagine how useful it would be. Any
>> chance of mintty picking up that functionality? Combining mintty's existing
>> handling of mouse scrolling with the trackpoint would be really slick, but I
>> don't know how hard it would be. It's also unclear whether the X11 faq entry
>> about trackpoint is out of date [2], since I've never followed those
>> directions and yet xterm scrolls fine for me.
>>
>> [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2011-12/msg00022.html
>> [2] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-trackpoint
> I'm afraid I don't know what special support if any might be needed
> here, and I haven't got the hardware to try it. Both scroll messages
> and mousewheel messages should work already, so unless there's a
> special message type for trackpoints, this sounds primarily like a
> driver configuration issue.
Looks like you're right. The following magic incantation works for me 
(T410s, Win7/x64), thanks to [3].

Add the following near the top of both TP4Scrol.dat and TP4Table.dat (in 
C:\Program Files\Synaptic\SynTP on my machine), then kill all 
UltraNav-related processes and restart them; you also have to restart 
any mintty you want to see the new behavior.
> ; mintty
> *,*,mintty.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9

[3] 
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkVantage-Technologies/Trackpoint-Auto-select-scrolling-not-compatible-with-Firefox-3/td-p/94075

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