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[Jerone Young <jerone.young@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-mouse

All thinkpad Laptop and perperhials (USB keyboards) feature a
trackpoint. One feature missing from Ubuntu out of the box, is the
ability for the trackpoint to do horizontal & vertical scrolling.

If you are on a web page, you hold the middle button (which on Thinkpads
has a blue strip .. to identify this feature) .. then you use the
touchpoint to scroll the page. Horizontally or vertically.

Thinkwiki.org has put together a very comprehensive config for xorg to enable this feature for only Trackpoint enabled devices.
The xorg.conf.d conf can be found here:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint#xorg.conf.d

I have tested it and it works wonderfully on my Lenovo Thinkpad X301,
Lenovo Thinkpad T410, as well as the Lenovo Thinkpad USB keyboard.

I have the config file attached to this bug. But I'm not 100% sure if
xserver-xorg-input-mouse is the right package to put it in or not.

This is a feature that many Thinkpad users use under windows. Would be
good to have it enabled in Ubuntu by default.

** Affects: xserver-xorg-input-mouse (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Enable Thinkpad Trackpoint scrolling by default
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612335
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