X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4EE37789.8090808@cs.utoronto.ca> References: <4EE37789.8090808@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:08:16 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: RFE: mintty + trackpoint? From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 about trackpoint is out of date [2], since I've never followed those 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. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple