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How to configure the TrackPoint

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Contents [hide] 1 Configuration using xinput 1.1 Example: openSUSE 11.2 and ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint 2 Graphical Frontends 2.1 GPointing Device Settings 2.2 configure-trackpoint 3 Configuration using DevKit 4 Configuration using udev and HAL 4.1 Scrolling 4.1.1 xorg.conf.d 4.1.2 udev 4.1.3 Hal (soon to be deprecated) 4.1.4 Reactivate Scrolling after suspend/resume 4.2 Configuring other options (e.g. Press to select, Sensitivity and Speed) 5 Configuration using sysfs 5.1 Press to Select 5.2 Sensitivity & Speed 5.3 Vertical Scrolling 6 Configuration using the X server (xorg.conf) 6.1 Using the "evdev" driver (preferred, especially for recent Xorg versions) 6.2 Using the "mouse" driver (deprecated, only for old Xorg versions) 7 Application specific tweaks 7.1 Configure Opera for using trackpoint horizontal scrolling 7.2 Firefox 3 tweaks 8 Sysfs Options Reference 9 Determining TrackPoint Path ID

Below are several ways of configuring the kernel psmouse driver for controlling extended TrackPoint features.

On a Modern distribution (like Fedora, Ubuntu or OpenSUSE) you will want to use xinput or one of the graphical front ends. For distributions that are lagging a bit (e.g. Debian Lenny and PCLOS '09) you may still want to use the old xorg config method.

Configuration using xinput

If you want to modify changes on the fly, you can do so with xinput (part of the optional xorg-x11-apps rpm on Fedora). Note that these changes are not saved when the xserver is restarted. However, you can add the lines e.g. in your .xsessionrc (depends on your distribution) so they are executed every time X starts.

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