Thinkpad Middle Mouse Button in 8.10

[Skywing]

Does anyone here know how to configure the middle mouse button on a thinkpad to scroll instead of act as mouse button 3? Right now if I press it it acts as a middle mouse click, I would like to use it to scroll as it does it Windows. Thanks.

[ssully]

This has been answered elsewhere, and from what I've read may depend on the type of thinkpad you're using. Any any rate, you can try the following (I think this is attributable to a howto on www.thinkwiki.org).

As root, create the file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi

sudo gedit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi

and enter as contents

<match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint">
  <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
  <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge>
  <merge key="input.x11_options.ZAxsisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
  <merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
</match>

Save the file, restart X and see if it worked.

[arist0tle]

Cool thanks. Also, if you have a trackpoint AND a trackpad (say an R500), read this ( http://web.archive.org/web/200610102...cid=MIGR-51536 ). That worked for me on my R500