X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4EE52514.7070607@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:48:04 -0500 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: RFE: mintty + trackpoint? References: <4EE37789 DOT 8090808 AT cs DOT utoronto DOT ca> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 about trackpoint is out of date [2], since I've never followed those 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 -- 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